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title: To carry out this promise, he called in the aid of another demon nam… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: To carry out this promise, he called in the aid of another demon named Maricha. Who acts: Ravana. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 40

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To carry out this promise, he called in the aid of another demon named Maricha.

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**Who acts:** Ravana · **What happens:** carry out, call, name · **To what, where:** promise, aid, demon · **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 (Ravana), 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:pg76982:20:40
# text = To carry out this promise, he called in the aid of another demon named Maricha.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	Maricha	Maricha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry out** | to-infinitive | Ravana *not said here* | this promise |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality |
| 2 | **call** | past | Ravana |  |  | the aid of another demon |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **name** | participle |  | another demon *not said here* |  |  |  | Maricha *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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