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title: At once he reassumed his proper guise and seizing her by the hair th… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: At once he reassumed his proper guise and seizing her by the hair threw her into his chariot and carried her off to his island kingdom of Lanka. Who acts: Sita, seizing. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 54

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At once he reassumed his proper guise and seizing her by the hair threw her into his chariot and carried her off to his island kingdom of Lanka.

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**Who acts:** Sita, seizing · **What happens:** reassum, seize, throw, carry off · **To what, where:** proper guise, sage, chariot, island kingdom

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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, seizing), 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:pg76982:20:54
# text = At once he reassumed his proper guise and seizing her by the hair threw her into his chariot and carried her off to his island kingdom of Lanka.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reassumed	reassum	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	guise	guise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **reassum** | past | Sita | Sita's proper guise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seize** | gerund |  | sage |  |  |  | by the hair | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **throw** | past | seizing | sage |  |  |  | into Sita's chariot *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer she=Theme into chariot=Result |
| 4 | **carry off** | past | Sita *not said here* | sage |  | Sita's island kingdom of Lanka |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to kingdom=Destination |

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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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