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title: It was there, too, that Laxman cut off the nose of a female demon ca… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: It was there, too, that Laxman cut off the nose of a female demon called Surpanakha who fell in love with Rama and tried to kill Sita in the hope of winning Rama’s undivided affections. Who acts: latter, Laxman, female demon, hope. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rou
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 38

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It was there, too, that Laxman cut off the nose of a female demon called Surpanakha who fell in love with Rama and tried to kill Sita in the hope of winning Rama’s undivided affections.

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**Who acts:** latter, Laxman, female demon, hope · **What happens:** be, cut off, call, fall, try, kill · **To what, where:** nose, female demon, love, Sita, hope, undivided affections · **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 (latter, Laxman, female demon, hope), 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:pg76982:20:38
# text = It was there, too, that Laxman cut off the nose of a female demon called Surpanakha who fell in love with Rama and tried to kill Sita in the hope of winning Rama’s undivided affections.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	Laxman	Laxman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	Surpanakha	Surpanakha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Rama	Rama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	Sita	Sita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	winning	win	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
35	Rama	Rama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	undivided	undivided	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	affections	affection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | latter |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut off** | past | Laxman | the nose of a female demon |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector nose=Eventuality |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | a female demon *not said here* |  |  |  | Surpanakha *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fall** | past | a female demon |  |  | love |  | with Rama | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
| 5 | **try** | past | a female demon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a female demon *not said here* | Sita |  | the hope |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sita=Theme |
| 7 | **win** | gerund | the hope *not said here* | Rama's undivided affections |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Eventuality |

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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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