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title: Moses indignantly asked whether he wanted to drown every soul on boa… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Moses indignantly asked whether he wanted to drown every soul on board. Who acts: Moses. 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 39

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Moses indignantly asked whether he wanted to drown every soul on board.

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**Who acts:** Moses · **What happens:** ask, want, drown · **To what, where:** soul, board · **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 (Moses), 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:pg76982:9:39
# text = Moses indignantly asked whether he wanted to drown every soul on board.
1	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	indignantly	indignantly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Moses |  |  |  |  | indignantly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **want** | past | Moses |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **drown** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Moses *not said here* | every soul |  | board |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=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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