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title: They spoke of these marvels to Lalla Beg, who at once remitted the s… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: They spoke of these marvels to Lalla Beg, who at once remitted the sentence. Who acts: executioners, Lalla Beg. 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 144

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They spoke of these marvels to Lalla Beg, who at once remitted the sentence.

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**Who acts:** executioners, Lalla Beg · **What happens:** speak, remit · **To what, where:** Lalla Beg, sentence · **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, Lalla Beg), 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:pg76982:9:144
# text = They spoke of these marvels to Lalla Beg, who at once remitted the sentence.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	marvels	marvel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Lalla	Lalla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Beg	Beg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	obl	_	_
13	remitted	remit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | executioners *= executioner* |  | Lalla Beg |  |  | of this marvels | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to beg=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **remit** | past | Lalla Beg | the sentence |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sentence=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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