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title: He redeemed the snake at the cost of a vast stretch of country and t… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He redeemed the snake at the cost of a vast stretch of country and turning the snake again into a spirit, sent it back to do service to Nuh Halani in the house of Hades. Who acts: Makhdum, vast stretch. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir., with its dependency 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 163

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He redeemed the snake at the cost of a vast stretch of country and turning the snake again into a spirit, sent it back to do service to Nuh Halani in the house of Hades.

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**Who acts:** Makhdum, vast stretch · **What happens:** redeem, turn, send back, do, cost · **To what, where:** snake, cost, spirit, service, Nuh, house

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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 (Makhdum, vast stretch), 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:pg76982:9:163
# text = He redeemed the snake at the cost of a vast stretch of country and turning the snake again into a spirit, sent it back to do service to Nuh Halani in the house of Hades.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	redeemed	redeem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	stretch	stretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
28	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Nuh	Nuh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	Halani	Halani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Hades	Hade	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **redeem** | past | Makhdum | the snake |  | the cost of a vast stretch of country |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | gerund | a vast stretch of country *not said here* | the snake |  | a spirit | again |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent snake=Theme into spirit=Trajectory |
| 3 | **send back** | past | Makhdum *not said here* | spirit |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | Makhdum *not said here* | service | Nuh | the house of Hades |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality |
| 5 | **cost** |  |  | a vast stretch of country |  |  |  |  | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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