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title: The indignant Marak resolved not to give his Hindu subjects a day’s… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The indignant Marak resolved not to give his Hindu subjects a day’s more grace and announced that he would convert or kill them all that very evening. Who acts: indignant Marak, Hindu. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Udero Lal., with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 44

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The indignant Marak resolved not to give his Hindu subjects a day’s more grace and announced that he would convert or kill them all that very evening.

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**Who acts:** indignant Marak, Hindu · **What happens:** resolve, not give, subject, announce, convert, kill · **To what, where:** more grace, kazi · **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 (indignant Marak, Hindu), 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:pg76982:8:44
# text = The indignant Marak resolved not to give his Hindu subjects a day’s more grace and announced that he would convert or kill them all that very evening.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	indignant	indignant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Marak	Marak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Hindu	Hindu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	subjects	subject	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	convert	convert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past | the indignant Marak |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **give** | to-infinitive | the indignant Marak *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **subject** | present | Marak's Hindu | a day's more grace |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | the indignant Marak *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **convert** | would | Hindu |  |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **kill** | infinitive | Hindu *not said here* | kazi |  |  | evening |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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