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title: “In it,” they said, “you can fly all over the sky and whenever you s… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: “In it,” they said, “you can fly all over the sky and whenever you see a demon on earth, you can come down and skin him.” Who acts: demons, you. 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 ever
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 111

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“In it,” they said, “you can fly all over the sky and whenever you see a demon on earth, you can come down and skin him.”

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**Who acts:** demons, you · **What happens:** say, fly, see, come down · **To what, where:** pavanpavdi, sky, demon, earth, skin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, you), 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:pg76982:19:111
# text = “In it,” they said, “you can fly all over the sky and whenever you see a demon on earth, you can come down and skin him.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | demons *= demon* |  |  | pavanpavdi |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fly** *in a quote* | can | you |  |  | the sky |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over sky=Location |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | present | you | a demon |  | earth |  | whenever *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer demon=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come down** *in a quote* | can | you | skin  Rupsinh |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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