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title: As they returned to tell Lalla Beg, they saw the saint standing in t… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: As they returned to tell Lalla Beg, they saw the saint standing in the roadside alive and well. Who acts: executioners, saint. 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 143

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As they returned to tell Lalla Beg, they saw the saint standing in the roadside alive and well.

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**Who acts:** executioners, saint · **What happens:** return, tell, see, stand · **To what, where:** Lalla Beg, saint, roadside · **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 (executioners, saint), 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:pg76982:9:143
# text = As they returned to tell Lalla Beg, they saw the saint standing in the roadside alive and well.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	Lalla	Lalla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Beg	Beg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	roadside	roadside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | executioners *= executioner* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | executioners *= executioner* *not said here* |  | Lalla Beg |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beg=Recipient |
| 3 | **see** | past | executioners *= executioner* | the saint |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer saint=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | the saint *not said here* |  |  | the roadside |  | alive *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in roadside=Location |

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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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