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title: “The parchment on one of his drums is torn and he sent me out to get… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: “The parchment on one of his drums is torn and he sent me out to get two demon skins with which to repair it. Who acts: messenger. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 103

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“The parchment on one of his drums is torn and he sent me out to get two demon skins with which to repair it.

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**Who acts:** messenger · **What happens:** tear, send out, get, repair · **To what, where:** parchment, messenger, two demon skins

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:19:103
# text = “The parchment on one of his drums is torn and he sent me out to get two demon skins with which to repair it.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	parchment	parchment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	repair	repair	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the parchment on one of messenger's drums |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **send out** *in a quote* | past | messenger | a messenger *= messenger* |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | messenger *not said here* | two demon skins |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Stimulus |
| 4 | **repair** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | messenger *not said here* | parchment |  |  |  | with two demon skins | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with which=Instrument |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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