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title: To humour his queen and at the same time to oblige the rishi, he rel… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: To humour his queen and at the same time to oblige the rishi, he released a part of the Ganges river at Trimbak and it became the Godavari. Who acts: Gautama, part. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 30

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To humour his queen and at the same time to oblige the rishi, he released a part of the Ganges river at Trimbak and it became the Godavari.

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**Who acts:** Gautama, part · **What happens:** humour, oblige, release, become · **To what, where:** queen, rishi, part

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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, part), 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:pg76982:20:30
# text = To humour his queen and at the same time to oblige the rishi, he released a part of the Ganges river at Trimbak and it became the Godavari.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	humour	humour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	oblige	oblige	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rishi	rishi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	released	release	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Ganges	Ganges	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Trimbak	Trimbak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Godavari	Godavari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **humour** | to-infinitive | Gautama *not said here* | Gautama's queen and the same time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **oblige** | to-infinitive | Gautama *not said here* | the rishi |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rishi=Patient |
| 3 | **release** | past | Gautama | a part of the Ganges river at Trimbak |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer part=Source |
| 4 | **become** | past | part |  |  |  |  | the Godavari *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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