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title: “To-morrow,” said the old cow, “our master will put a ring through y… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: “To-morrow,” said the old cow, “our master will put a ring through your nose and yoking you to a plough will make you work for the rest of your life.” Who acts: old cow, master, yoking, morrow. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dependency t
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 66

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“To-morrow,” said the old cow, “our master will put a ring through your nose and yoking you to a plough will make you work for the rest of your life.”

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**Who acts:** old cow, master, yoking, morrow · **What happens:** say, put, yoke, make, work · **To what, where:** morrow, ring, nose · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (old cow, master, yoking, morrow), 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:pg76982:20:66
# text = “To-morrow,” said the old cow, “our master will put a ring through your nose and yoking you to a plough will make you work for the rest of your life.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	yoking	yoke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	csubj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	plough	plough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old cow |  | morrow |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to morrow=Recipient |
| 2 | **put** *in a quote* | future | our master | a ring |  | your nose |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ring=Theme through nose=Destination |
| 3 | **yoke** *in a quote* | gerund |  | morrow |  |  |  | to a plough | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient to plough=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | future | yoking | morrow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** *in a quote* | infinitive | morrow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the rest of your life | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for rest=Beneficiary |

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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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