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title: As a punishment for burning up another god’s head, he was condemned… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: As a punishment for burning up another god’s head, he was condemned always to see it dancing before his eyes. Who acts: punishment, head. 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 62

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As a punishment for burning up another god’s head, he was condemned always to see it dancing before his eyes.

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**Who acts:** punishment, head · **What happens:** burn up, condemn, see, dance · **To what, where:** head, Brahmadev, eyes

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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 (punishment, head), 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:pg76982:20:62
# text = As a punishment for burning up another god’s head, he was condemned always to see it dancing before his eyes.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	condemned	condemn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn up** | gerund | a punishment *not said here* | another god's head |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 2 | **condemn** | past · passive |  | Brahmadev |  |  |  | as a punishment; always *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as punishment=Attribute |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | head |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dance** | gerund | head *not said here* |  |  | Brahmadev's eyes |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=Location |

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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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