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title: When he wished to leave, Sayad Ali implored him to remain at Baghdad… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: When he wished to leave, Sayad Ali implored him to remain at Baghdad for ever. Who acts: Hazrat, Sayad. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, A Sind Saint., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 17

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When he wished to leave, Sayad Ali implored him to remain at Baghdad for ever.

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**Who acts:** Hazrat, Sayad · **What happens:** wish, leave, implore, remain · **To what, where:** Hazrat, Baghdad

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, A Sind Saint.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hazrat, Sayad), 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:pg76982:7:17
# text = When he wished to leave, Sayad Ali implored him to remain at Baghdad for ever.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Sayad	Sayad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	implored	implore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | Hazrat |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Hazrat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **implore** | past | Sayad | Hazrat |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **remain** | to-infinitive | Sayad *not said here* |  |  | Baghdad |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at baghdad=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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