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title: The terrified minister fell at Udero Lal’s feet and begged him to se… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The terrified minister fell at Udero Lal’s feet and begged him to send away the mighty army that followed in his footsteps. Who acts: terrified minister, mighty army. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Udero Lal., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 33

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The terrified minister fell at Udero Lal’s feet and begged him to send away the mighty army that followed in his footsteps.

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**Who acts:** terrified minister, mighty army · **What happens:** fall, beg, send away, follow · **To what, where:** feet, minister, mighty army, footsteps

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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 (terrified minister, mighty army), 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:pg76982:8:33
# text = The terrified minister fell at Udero Lal’s feet and begged him to send away the mighty army that followed in his footsteps.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	Udero	Udero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
9	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	away	away	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the terrified minister |  |  | Udero's feet |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the terrified minister *not said here* |  | minister |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **send away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the terrified minister *not said here* | the mighty army |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | past | the mighty army |  |  | Aho's footsteps |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in footstep=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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