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title: He then said to the youth with a mocking laugh: “When I can blast a… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He then said to the youth with a mocking laugh: “When I can blast a tree with a single breath, do you think that I fear you for all your valour? Who acts: king, youth. 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
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 181

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He then said to the youth with a mocking laugh: “When I can blast a tree with a single breath, do you think that I fear you for all your valour?

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**Who acts:** king, youth · **What happens:** say, blast, think, fear · **To what, where:** youth, tree · **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 (king, youth), 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:pg76982:19:181
# text = He then said to the youth with a mocking laugh: “When I can blast a tree with a single breath, do you think that I fear you for all your valour?
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	mocking	mocking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	blast	blast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	fear	fear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	34	det:predet	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | king |  | the youth with a mocking laugh |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to youth=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **blast** *in a quote* | can | king | a tree |  |  |  | with a single breath | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tree=Patient with breath=Instrument |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · do-support | the youth with a mocking laugh *= youth* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fear** *in a quote* | present | king | the youth with a mocking laugh *= youth* |  |  |  | for your valour | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus for valour=Attribute |

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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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