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title: The rishi had killed a cow and the gods to punish him for this fearf… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The rishi had killed a cow and the gods to punish him for this fearful sin had withheld the rains. 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 clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 25

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The rishi had killed a cow and the gods to punish him for this fearful sin had withheld the rains.

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**What happens:** kill, punish, withhold · **To what, where:** rishi, fearful sin

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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: 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:pg76982:20:25
# text = The rishi had killed a cow and the gods to punish him for this fearful sin had withheld the rains.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rishi	rishi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	withheld	withhold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rains	rain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive |  | the rishi |  |  |  | a cow and the gods *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer cow=Result |
| 2 | **punish** | to-infinitive |  | rishi |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **withhold** | past · perfect · passive |  | this fearful sin |  |  |  | the rains *obj* | 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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