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description: Gautama to fulfil his promise went through the most incredible penances in honour of the God Shiva, until the latter asked the rishi what he wanted. Who acts: Gautama, rishi. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 27

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Gautama to fulfil his promise went through the most incredible penances in honour of the God Shiva, until the latter asked the rishi what he wanted.

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**Who acts:** Gautama, rishi · **What happens:** fulfil, go, ask, want, promise, honour · **To what, where:** promise, incredible penances, rishi, God Shiva · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Gautama, rishi), 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:pg76982:20:27
# text = Gautama to fulfil his promise went through the most incredible penances in honour of the God Shiva, until the latter asked the rishi what he wanted.
1	Gautama	gautama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	incredible	incredible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	penances	penance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Shiva	Shiva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	latter	latte	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	rishi	rishi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fulfil** | to-infinitive | Gautama *not said here* | Gautama's promise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | Gautama |  |  | the incredible penances in honour of the God Shiva |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through penance=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Gautama *not said here* | the rishi |  |  |  | latte *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent rishi=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **want** | past | rishi |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 5 | **promise** |  | Gautama |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **honour** |  |  | the God Shiva |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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