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title: Then regaining courage, he slashed so fiercely at the elephant’s tru… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Then regaining courage, he slashed so fiercely at the elephant’s trunk with his sword that it let him and the horse go. Who acts: king, courage, horse. 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 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 62

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Then regaining courage, he slashed so fiercely at the elephant’s trunk with his sword that it let him and the horse go.

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**Who acts:** king, courage, horse · **What happens:** regain, slash, let, go · **To what, where:** courage, king

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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, courage, horse), 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:pg76982:19:62
# text = Then regaining courage, he slashed so fiercely at the elephant’s trunk with his sword that it let him and the horse go.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	regaining	regain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	slashed	slash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regain** | gerund | king *not said here* | courage |  |  | then |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme |
| 2 | **slash** | past | king |  |  |  |  | at the elephant's trunk with king's sword; fiercely *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at trunk=Patient |
| 3 | **let** | past | courage | king |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | the horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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