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title: After Abdul Latif had left the spot, they plotted to kill and eat hi… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: After Abdul Latif had left the spot, they plotted to kill and eat him, so as to obtain his supernatural powers. Who acts: wonder. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 108

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After Abdul Latif had left the spot, they plotted to kill and eat him, so as to obtain his supernatural powers.

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**Who acts:** wonder · **What happens:** leave, plot, kill, eat, obtain · **To what, where:** Abdul, supernatural powers

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonder), 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:pg76982:9:108
# text = After Abdul Latif had left the spot, they plotted to kill and eat him, so as to obtain his supernatural powers.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Abdul	Abdul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Latif	Latif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	plotted	plot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	supernatural	supernatural	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | Abdul |  |  |  | the spot *obj* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme spot=Attribute |
| 2 | **plot** | past | wonder |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **kill** | to-infinitive | wonder *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **eat** | infinitive | wonder *not said here* | ABDUL |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 5 | **obtain** | to-infinitive | wonder *not said here* | ABDUL's supernatural powers |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset power=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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