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title: His horrified disciples beseeched him to let them write the Shah jo… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: His horrified disciples beseeched him to let them write the Shah jo Rasalo from memory. Who acts: horrified disciples, sorrows. 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 180

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His horrified disciples beseeched him to let them write the Shah jo Rasalo from memory.

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**Who acts:** horrified disciples, sorrows · **What happens:** beseeche, let, write · **To what, where:** Shah, sorrows, Shah jo, memory

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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 (horrified disciples, sorrows), 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:pg76982:9:180
# text = His horrified disciples beseeched him to let them write the Shah jo Rasalo from memory.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	horrified	horrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	disciples	disciple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	beseeched	beseeche	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	jo	jo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	Rasalo	Rasalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beseeche** | past | Shah's horrified disciples | Shah |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | Shah's horrified disciples *not said here* | sorrows *= sorrow* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **write** | infinitive | sorrows *= sorrow* *not said here* | the Shah jo |  | memory |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent jo=Result from memory=Material |

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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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