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title: The three wicked men fell at Udero Lal’s feet and Marak took a might… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The three wicked men fell at Udero Lal’s feet and Marak took a mighty oath never again to harass the Hindus. Who acts: three wicked men, Marak. 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 51

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The three wicked men fell at Udero Lal’s feet and Marak took a mighty oath never again to harass the Hindus.

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**Who acts:** three wicked men, Marak · **What happens:** fall, take, harass · **To what, where:** feet, mighty oath, Hindus

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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 (three wicked men, Marak), 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:pg76982:8:51
# text = The three wicked men fell at Udero Lal’s feet and Marak took a mighty oath never again to harass the Hindus.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	Udero	Udero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	Marak	Marak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	harass	harass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the three wicked men |  |  | Udero's feet |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
| 2 | **take** | past | Marak | a mighty oath |  |  | again; never |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme |
| 3 | **harass** | to-infinitive | Marak *not said here* | the Hindus |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hindu=Experiencer |

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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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