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title: When twelve years old Udero Lal bade Phugar choose a spot, whereon t… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: When twelve years old Udero Lal bade Phugar choose a spot, whereon to build him a temple, as he meant soon to leave the earth. Who acts: Phugar. 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 94

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When twelve years old Udero Lal bade Phugar choose a spot, whereon to build him a temple, as he meant soon to leave the earth.

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**Who acts:** Phugar · **What happens:** choose, build, mean, leave · **To what, where:** old Udero bade, temple, Phugar, earth

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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 (Phugar), 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:pg76982:8:94
# text = When twelve years old Udero Lal bade Phugar choose a spot, whereon to build him a temple, as he meant soon to leave the earth.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	Udero	Udero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
8	Phugar	Phugar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	whereon	whereon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | present |  | old Udero bade |  |  |  | a spot *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme |
| 2 | **build** | to-infinitive |  | a temple | Phugar |  |  | whereon *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary temple=Product |
| 3 | **mean** | past | Phugar |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Phugar *not said here* | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=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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