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title: The sage put it under his foot and when Rupsinh asked for it back, s… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The sage put it under his foot and when Rupsinh asked for it back, sternly bade the prince begone. Who acts: sage, Rupsinh, prince. 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 178

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The sage put it under his foot and when Rupsinh asked for it back, sternly bade the prince begone.

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**Who acts:** sage, Rupsinh, prince · **What happens:** put, ask back, begone · **To what, where:** goal, foot, bade

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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 (sage, Rupsinh, prince), 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:pg76982:19:178
# text = The sage put it under his foot and when Rupsinh asked for it back, sternly bade the prince begone.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sage	sage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	Rupsinh	Rupsinh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	sternly	sternly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	begone	begone	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | the sage | goal |  | king's foot |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under foot=Destination |
| 2 | **ask back** *speech: ask* | past | Rupsinh |  |  |  |  | for goal; bade *parataxis* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **begone** | infinitive | the prince | bade *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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