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title: At their instigation the cruel ruler ordered Abdul Latif to be impal… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: At their instigation the cruel ruler ordered Abdul Latif to be impaled and then cut to pieces. Who acts: cruel ruler, Mullas. 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 141

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At their instigation the cruel ruler ordered Abdul Latif to be impaled and then cut to pieces.

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**Who acts:** cruel ruler, Mullas · **What happens:** order, impale, cut, instigate · **To what, where:** Abdul, instigation, pieces

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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 (cruel ruler, Mullas), 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:pg76982:9:141
# text = At their instigation the cruel ruler ordered Abdul Latif to be impaled and then cut to pieces.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	instigation	instigation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Abdul	Abdul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	Latif	Latif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	impaled	impale	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | the cruel ruler |  | Abdul | Mullas's instigation |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent abdul=Theme at instigation=Asset |
| 2 | **impale** | to-infinitive · passive | the cruel ruler *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **cut** | infinitive | the cruel ruler *not said here* |  |  | pieces | then |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to piece=Location |
| 4 | **instigate** |  | Mullas *= mulla* |  |  |  |  |  | nom instigation «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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