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title: Rupsinh drew his sword and rode at the demons as if to skin them ali… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Rupsinh drew his sword and rode at the demons as if to skin them alive. Who acts: Rupsinh. 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 106

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Rupsinh drew his sword and rode at the demons as if to skin them alive.

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**Who acts:** Rupsinh · **What happens:** draw, ride · **To what, where:** sword, demons

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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 (Rupsinh), 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:pg76982:19:106
# text = Rupsinh drew his sword and rode at the demons as if to skin them alive.
1	Rupsinh	Rupsinh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
15	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | Rupsinh | Rupsinh's sword |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 2 | **ride** | past | Rupsinh *not said here* | demons *= demon* |  |  |  | at the demons; as skin; alive *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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