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title: Instantly King Ravana who had been hovering in the sky inside his ae… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Instantly King Ravana who had been hovering in the sky inside his aerial car, descended to earth and assuming the form of a mendicant approached the hermitage of Sita and asked her for alms. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 47

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Instantly King Ravana who had been hovering in the sky inside his aerial car, descended to earth and assuming the form of a mendicant approached the hermitage of Sita and asked her for alms.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** hover, descend, assume, approach, ask, form · **To what, where:** sky, aerial car, earth, form, hermitage, mendicant

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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 (King), 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:pg76982:20:47
# text = Instantly King Ravana who had been hovering in the sky inside his aerial car, descended to earth and assuming the form of a mendicant approached the hermitage of Sita and asked her for alms.
1	Instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	Ravana	Ravana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux	_	_
7	hovering	hover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	aerial	aerial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	descended	descend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	assuming	assume	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mendicant	mendicant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hermitage	hermitage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Sita	Sita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	alms	alm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	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 | **hover** | past · perfect · progressive | King |  |  | the sky |  | inside King's aerial car; who *nsubj*; instantly *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location |
| 2 | **descend** | participle |  | King's aerial car *not said here* |  | earth |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to earth=Location |
| 3 | **assume** | gerund | King *not said here* | the form of a mendicant |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 4 | **approach** | past |  | the hermitage of Sita |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hermitage=Theme |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | mendicant |  |  | for alms | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 6 | **form** |  |  | a mendicant |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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