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title: The Saint thereupon cursed him and vowed that the girl should wed no… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The Saint thereupon cursed him and vowed that the girl should wed no one else, but would find an instant resting place in paradise. Who acts: Saint, girl. 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 75

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The Saint thereupon cursed him and vowed that the girl should wed no one else, but would find an instant resting place in paradise.

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**Who acts:** Saint, girl · **What happens:** curse, vow, wed, find · **To what, where:** Sadaruddin, one, instant resting place, paradise

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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 (Saint, girl), 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:pg76982:7:75
# text = The Saint thereupon cursed him and vowed that the girl should wed no one else, but would find an instant resting place in paradise.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	cursed	curse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	vowed	vow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	wed	wed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	else	else	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	instant	instant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	resting	resting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	paradise	paradise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curse** | past | the Saint | Sadaruddin |  |  |  | thereupon *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **vow** | past | the Saint *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wed** | should | the girl | no one |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 4 | **find** | would | the Saint *not said here* | a instant resting place |  | paradise |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |

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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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