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title: “Will you plunge with me into the Indus?” asked Udero Lal. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: “Will you plunge with me into the Indus?” asked Udero Lal. 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 74

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“Will you plunge with me into the Indus?” asked Udero Lal.

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**Who acts:** Udero · **What happens:** plunge, ask · **To what, where:** Indus, Udero · **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:pg76982:8:74
# text = “Will you plunge with me into the Indus?” asked Udero Lal.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	plunge	plunge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Indus	Indus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Udero	Udero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	iobj	_	_
14	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plunge** *in a quote* | future | Udero |  |  | the Indus |  | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into indus=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Udero |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent udero=Recipient clause=Topic |

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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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