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title: The fakir refused to tell him, unless Abdul Latif promised to help h… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The fakir refused to tell him, unless Abdul Latif promised to help him to win what he sought. Who acts: fakir, Abdul. 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 114

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The fakir refused to tell him, unless Abdul Latif promised to help him to win what he sought.

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**Who acts:** fakir, Abdul · **What happens:** refuse, not tell, promise, help, win, seek · **To what, where:** fakir · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (fakir, Abdul), 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:pg76982:9:114
# text = The fakir refused to tell him, unless Abdul Latif promised to help him to win what he sought.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fakir	fakir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	Abdul	Abdul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Latif	Latif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past | the fakir |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the fakir *not said here* |  | fakir |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Abdul |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Abdul *not said here* | fakir |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **win** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | fakir *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **seek** | past | ABDUL |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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