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title: They will probably exclaim with Molière’s M. Géronte “Mais que diabl… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: They will probably exclaim with Molière’s M. Géronte “Mais que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère?” Who acts: Christians. 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 22

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They will probably exclaim with Molière’s M. Géronte “Mais que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère?”

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**Who acts:** Christians · **What happens:** exclaim

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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 (Christians), 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:pg76982:9:22
# text = They will probably exclaim with Molière’s M. Géronte “Mais que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère?”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	exclaim	exclaim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	Molière	Molière	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Géronte	Géronte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Mais	Mais	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	que	que	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	diable	diable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	allait	allait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	il	il	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	faire	faire	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat:foreign	_	_
18	dans	dans	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	dep	_	_
19	cette	cette	X	FW	_	20	compound	_	_
20	galère	galère	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | future | Christians *= christian* |  |  |  |  | with Molière's M. Géronte; probably *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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