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title: Sheikh Jalal yelled for mercy, but it was not granted him until he h… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Sheikh Jalal yelled for mercy, but it was not granted him until he had owned himself beaten and had promised to become an obedient and humble follower of Lal Shahbaz. Who acts: Sheikh. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, A Sind Saint., with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 34

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Sheikh Jalal yelled for mercy, but it was not granted him until he had owned himself beaten and had promised to become an obedient and humble follower of Lal Shahbaz.

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**Who acts:** Sheikh · **What happens:** yell, not grant, own, beat, promise, become · **To what, where:** mercy, Sheikh, obedient follower

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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 (Sheikh), 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:pg76982:7:34
# text = Sheikh Jalal yelled for mercy, but it was not granted him until he had owned himself beaten and had promised to become an obedient and humble follower of Lal Shahbaz.
1	Sheikh	Sheikh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Jalal	Jalal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	yelled	yell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	obedient	obedient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	follower	follower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	Shahbaz	Shahbaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yell** *speech: express* | past | Sheikh |  |  |  |  | for mercy | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for mercy=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **grant** | past · passive |  | mercy |  |  |  | Sheikh *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal he=Theme |
| 3 | **own** | past · perfect | Sheikh | Sheikh |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme |
| 4 | **beat** | participle | Sheikh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect | Sheikh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **become** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Sheikh *not said here* | a obedient follower of Lal |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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