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title: Ravana, King of Ceylon, was the brother of Surpanakha and when his m… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Ravana, King of Ceylon, was the brother of Surpanakha and when his mutilated sister came shrieking to his court, he promised her that she should be avenged. Who acts: Ravana, mutilated sister. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dependency tr
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 39

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Ravana, King of Ceylon, was the brother of Surpanakha and when his mutilated sister came shrieking to his court, he promised her that she should be avenged.

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**Who acts:** Ravana, mutilated sister · **What happens:** be, mutilate, come, shriek, promise, avenge · **To what, where:** brother, court, Rama

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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 (Ravana, mutilated sister), 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:pg76982:20:39
# text = Ravana, King of Ceylon, was the brother of Surpanakha and when his mutilated sister came shrieking to his court, he promised her that she should be avenged.
1	Ravana	Ravana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ceylon	Ceylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Surpanakha	Surpanakha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mutilated	mutilate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
18	shrieking	shriek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	avenged	avenge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Ravana | the brother |  |  |  | of Surpanakha | tree rules |
| 2 | **mutilate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | Surpanakha's mutilated sister |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shriek** | gerund | Surpanakha's mutilated sister *not said here* |  | Surpanakha's court |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to court=Recipient |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Ravana |  | Rama |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 6 | **avenge** | should · passive |  | Rama |  |  |  |  | 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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