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title: Sita attracted by the beautiful beast begged Rama to go and kill it… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Sita attracted by the beautiful beast begged Rama to go and kill it and fetch her the hide and the horns. Who acts: Sita. 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 42

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Sita attracted by the beautiful beast begged Rama to go and kill it and fetch her the hide and the horns.

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**Who acts:** Sita · **What happens:** attract, beg, go, kill, fetch · **To what, where:** Sita, Rama, beast, hide

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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 (Sita), 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:pg76982:20:42
# text = Sita attracted by the beautiful beast begged Rama to go and kill it and fetch her the hide and the horns.
1	Sita	Sita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	attracted	attract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Rama	Rama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attract** | participle |  | Sita *not said here* |  |  |  | by the beautiful beast | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Sita |  | Rama |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent rama=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Sita *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **kill** | infinitive | Sita *not said here* | beast |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **fetch** | infinitive | Sita *not said here* | the hide and the horns | Rama |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary hide=Theme |

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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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