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title: When Udero Lal was ten and old enough to be invested with the sacred… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: When Udero Lal was ten and old enough to be invested with the sacred thread, he asked to be given a guru. Who acts: 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 63

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When Udero Lal was ten and old enough to be invested with the sacred thread, he asked to be given a guru.

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**Who acts:** Udero · **What happens:** be, invest, ask, give · **To what, where:** ten, guru · **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 (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:pg76982:8:63
# text = When Udero Lal was ten and old enough to be invested with the sacred thread, he asked to be given a guru.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Udero	Udero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	invested	invest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	ccomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	guru	guru	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Udero | ten |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **invest** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with the sacred thread | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: with thread=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Udero |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive |  | a guru |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: guru=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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