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title: “Never mind,” said the abandoned young bull, “I know how to purify m… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: “Never mind,” said the abandoned young bull, “I know how to purify myself even from the deadly sin of Brahmahatya or Brahman murder.” Who acts: abandoned young bull. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 71

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“Never mind,” said the abandoned young bull, “I know how to purify myself even from the deadly sin of Brahmahatya or Brahman murder.”

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**Who acts:** abandoned young bull · **What happens:** not mind, say, abandon, know, purify · **To what, where:** abandoned young bull · **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 (abandoned young bull), 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:pg76982:20:71
# text = “Never mind,” said the abandoned young bull, “I know how to purify myself even from the deadly sin of Brahmahatya or Brahman murder.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	purify	purify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
18	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Brahmahatya	Brahmahatya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	murder	murder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mind** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the abandoned young bull |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **abandon** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the abandoned young bull *= bull* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **purify** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the abandoned young bull *= bull* |  |  |  | from the deadly sin of Brahmahatya or Brahman murder | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer myself=Source from sin=Theme |

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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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