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title: But though they promised always to worship light and water, they wou… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But though they promised always to worship light and water, they would not give up all and follow him. Who acts: things. 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 84

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But though they promised always to worship light and water, they would not give up all and follow him.

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**Who acts:** things · **What happens:** promise, worship, not give up, follow · **To what, where:** light, all, 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 (things), 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:pg76982:8:84
# text = But though they promised always to worship light and water, they would not give up all and follow him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	worship	worship	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **worship** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | things *= thing* *not said here* | light and water |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **give up** | would | things *= thing* | all |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Source |
| 4 | **follow** | infinitive | things *= thing* *not said here* | Udero |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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