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title: Lal Shahbaz determined to reduce him to obedience and make him his d… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Lal Shahbaz determined to reduce him to obedience and make him his disciple. Who acts: Lal. 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 20

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Lal Shahbaz determined to reduce him to obedience and make him his disciple.

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**Who acts:** Lal · **What happens:** determine, reduce, make · **To what, where:** Jalal, obedience, disciple

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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 (Lal), 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:pg76982:7:20
# text = Lal Shahbaz determined to reduce him to obedience and make him his disciple.
1	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Shahbaz	Shahbaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	reduce	reduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	obedience	obedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	disciple	disciple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | past | Lal |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **reduce** | to-infinitive | Lal *not said here* | Jalal |  |  |  | to obedience *goal* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer he=Patient to obedience=Goal |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | Lal *not said here* | Jalal's disciple | Jalal |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary disciple=Product |

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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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