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title: But while Marak listened with pious looks to Udero Lal’s words, his… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But while Marak listened with pious looks to Udero Lal’s words, his heart was full of black treachery. Who acts: Marak, heart, Udero. 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 39

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But while Marak listened with pious looks to Udero Lal’s words, his heart was full of black treachery.

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**Who acts:** Marak, heart, Udero · **What happens:** listen, be, word

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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 (Marak, heart, Udero), 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:pg76982:8:39
# text = But while Marak listened with pious looks to Udero Lal’s words, his heart was full of black treachery.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	Marak	Marak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	Udero	Udero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	treachery	treachery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | Marak |  |  |  |  | with pious looks; to Udero's words | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Marak's heart |  |  |  |  | of black treachery; full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **word** |  | Udero |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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