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title: All one night they kept vigil until they heard a voice that said “In… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: All one night they kept vigil until they heard a voice that said “In my sight there is neither caste nor creed.” Who acts: quarrels, voice, caste, my. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Udero Lal., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 115

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All one night they kept vigil until they heard a voice that said “In my sight there is neither caste nor creed.”

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**Who acts:** quarrels, voice, caste, my · **What happens:** keep, hear, say, be, sight · **To what, where:** vigil, voice, sight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Udero Lal.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quarrels, voice, caste, my), 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:pg76982:8:115
# text = All one night they kept vigil until they heard a voice that said “In my sight there is neither caste nor creed.”
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	vigil	vigil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	In	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
20	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	caste	caste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
23	creed	creed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | quarrels *= quarrel* | vigil |  |  | night |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vigil=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | quarrels *= quarrel* | a voice |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a voice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **does** *in a quote* | present | neither caste nor creed |  |  | my sight; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location |
| 5 | **sight** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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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