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title: The unhappy anchorite was seized, dragged before the governor and co… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The unhappy anchorite was seized, dragged before the governor and condemned to instant execution. 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 43

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The unhappy anchorite was seized, dragged before the governor and condemned to instant execution.

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**What happens:** seize, drag, condemn · **To what, where:** unhappy anchorite, governor

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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: 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:pg76982:7:43
# text = The unhappy anchorite was seized, dragged before the governor and condemned to instant execution.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	anchorite	anchorite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	condemned	condemn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	instant	instant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	execution	execution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **seize** | past · passive |  | the unhappy anchorite |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **drag** | participle |  |  |  | the governor |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before governor=Location |
| 3 | **condemn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to instant execution | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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