--- title: But intending evil as he did, he could not cross the lines which Ram… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics description: But intending evil as he did, he could not cross the lines which Rama had drawn. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/20/49/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/) / [Round About Nasik.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/20/) / 49 # Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 49 But intending evil as he did, he could not cross the lines which Rama had drawn. **Who acts:** Sita · **What happens:** intend, do, not cross, draw · **To what, where:** lines 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. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg76982:20:49 # text = But intending evil as he did, he could not cross the lines which Rama had drawn. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 intending intend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 3 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 Rama Rama PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **intend** | gerund | Sita *not said here* | | | | | evil *property* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **do** | past | Sita | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **cross** | could | Sita | the lines | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient | | 4 | **draw** | past · perfect · passive | | the lines | | | | Rama *nsubj* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/20/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/20/50/) - ↑ back to [Round About Nasik.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/20/)