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title: On the fourteenth day they would with their wives in their arms thro… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: On the fourteenth day they would with their wives in their arms throw themselves into it and thus escape the cruelty of Marak. Who acts: banks. 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 18

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On the fourteenth day they would with their wives in their arms throw themselves into it and thus escape the cruelty of Marak.

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**Who acts:** banks · **What happens:** throw, escape · **To what, where:** banks, stream, cruelty

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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 (banks), 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:pg76982:8:18
# text = On the fourteenth day they would with their wives in their arms throw themselves into it and thus escape the cruelty of Marak.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fourteenth	fourteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	throw	throw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Marak	Marak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **throw** | would | banks *= bank* | banks *= bank* |  | stream | day | banks's wives in banks's arms *nsubj* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer themselves=Theme into it=Result |
| 2 | **escape** | infinitive | banks *= bank* *not said here* | the cruelty of Marak |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cruelty=Initial\_Location |

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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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