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title: It so chanced that the saint Gorakhnath passed by at that moment and… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: It so chanced that the saint Gorakhnath passed by at that moment and Shiva bade him take Udero Lal as his pupil. Who acts: guru, saint, Shiva. 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 68

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It so chanced that the saint Gorakhnath passed by at that moment and Shiva bade him take Udero Lal as his pupil.

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**Who acts:** guru, saint, Shiva · **What happens:** chance, pass, bade, take · **To what, where:** saint, Udero

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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 (guru, saint, Shiva), 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:pg76982:8:68
# text = It so chanced that the saint Gorakhnath passed by at that moment and Shiva bade him take Udero Lal as his pupil.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	chanced	chance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Gorakhnath	Gorakhnath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Shiva	Shiva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	Udero	Udero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chance** | past | guru |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | past | the saint |  |  |  | moment |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bade** | past | Shiva | saint |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | Shiva *not said here* | Udero |  |  |  | as Udero's pupil | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent udero=Theme as pupil=Attribute |

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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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