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title: In an agony of fear they begged him to take the skin of their blind… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: In an agony of fear they begged him to take the skin of their blind uncle instead. Who acts: demons. 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 107

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In an agony of fear they begged him to take the skin of their blind uncle instead.

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**Who acts:** demons · **What happens:** beg, take · **To what, where:** Rupsinh, agony, skin

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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 (demons), 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:pg76982:19:107
# text = In an agony of fear they begged him to take the skin of their blind uncle instead.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	agony	agony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | demons *= demon* |  | Rupsinh | a agony of fear |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | demons *= demon* *not said here* | the skin of demons's blind uncle |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=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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