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title: On the instant he accepted the challenge and going to the Murshid’s… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: On the instant he accepted the challenge and going to the Murshid’s house, leapt into the boiling oil. Who acts: Murshid. 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 56

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On the instant he accepted the challenge and going to the Murshid’s house, leapt into the boiling oil.

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**Who acts:** Murshid · **What happens:** accept, go, leapt · **To what, where:** challenge, instant, house, boiling oil

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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 (Murshid), 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:pg76982:7:56
# text = On the instant he accepted the challenge and going to the Murshid’s house, leapt into the boiling oil.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	challenge	challenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Murshid	Murshid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
16	leapt	leapt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | past | Murshid | the challenge |  | the instant |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | the Murshid's house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **leapt** | infinitive | Murshid *not said here* |  |  | the boiling oil |  |  | tree rules |

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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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