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title: On learning what had happened, he flew into a rage—if I may say such… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: On learning what had happened, he flew into a rage—if I may say such a thing of so holy a man. Who acts: Latif, I. 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 172

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On learning what had happened, he flew into a rage—if I may say such a thing of so holy a man.

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**Who acts:** Latif, I · **What happens:** learn, happen, fly, say · **To what, where:** rage, thing · **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 (Latif, I), 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:pg76982:9:172
# text = On learning what had happened, he flew into a rage—if I may say such a thing of so holy a man.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	19	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | gerund | Latif *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | past | Latif |  |  |  |  | into a rage *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | may | I | such thing of a holy man |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |

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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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