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title: The tale runs that his father King Dasharatha, urged thereto by his… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The tale runs that his father King Dasharatha, urged thereto by his queen Kaikeyi, drove his eldest son Rama into exile, so that her son Bharata might succeed to the throne. Who acts: tale, father, son. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dep
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 34

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The tale runs that his father King Dasharatha, urged thereto by his queen Kaikeyi, drove his eldest son Rama into exile, so that her son Bharata might succeed to the throne.

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**Who acts:** tale, father, son · **What happens:** run, urge, drive, succeed · **To what, where:** eldest son, exile

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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 (tale, father, son), 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:pg76982:20:34
# text = The tale runs that his father King Dasharatha, urged thereto by his queen Kaikeyi, drove his eldest son Rama into exile, so that her son Bharata might succeed to the throne.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	Dasharatha	Dasharatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	urged	urge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
11	thereto	thereto	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	Kaikeyi	Kaikeyi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	Rama	Rama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	31	mark	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	Bharata	Bharata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | the tale |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **urge** | participle | Nasik's father |  |  |  |  | by Nasik's queen; thereto *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drive** | past | the tale *not said here* | Nasik's eldest son |  | exile |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent son=Theme into exile=Trajectory |
| 4 | **succeed** | might | Rama's son |  |  |  |  | to the throne | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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