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title: To prevent the Ganges destroying the earth, the God Shiva caught her… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: To prevent the Ganges destroying the earth, the God Shiva caught her in his hair as she fell and kept her there for a whole year. Who acts: Ganges, God Shiva. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 11

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To prevent the Ganges destroying the earth, the God Shiva caught her in his hair as she fell and kept her there for a whole year.

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**Who acts:** Ganges, God Shiva · **What happens:** prevent, destroy, catch, fall, keep · **To what, where:** Ganges, earth, hair

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ganges, God Shiva), 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:pg76982:20:11
# text = To prevent the Ganges destroying the earth, the God Shiva caught her in his hair as she fell and kept her there for a whole year.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Ganges	Ganges	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Shiva	Shiva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	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	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevent** | to-infinitive |  | the Ganges |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer ganges=Theme |
| 2 | **destroy** | gerund | the Ganges *not said here* | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient |
| 3 | **catch** | past | the God Shiva | Ganges |  | Shiva's hair |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | past | Ganges |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | past | Ganges *not said here* | Ganges |  | there | year |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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