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title: “Three times” said Al Khisr, “you have broken your promise and quest… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: “Three times” said Al Khisr, “you have broken your promise and questioned my acts. Who acts: Three times, you, your, my. 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 49

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“Three times” said Al Khisr, “you have broken your promise and questioned my acts.

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**Who acts:** Three times, you, your, my · **What happens:** say, break, question, promise, act · **To what, where:** promise, acts · **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 (Three times, you, your, my), 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:pg76982:9:49
# text = “Three times” said Al Khisr, “you have broken your promise and questioned my acts.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
7	Khisr	Khisr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	questioned	question	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Three times |  |  |  |  | Al *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **break** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | your promise |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient |
| 3 | **question** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | you *not said here* | my acts |  |  |  |  | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Recipient |
| 4 | **promise** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **act** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=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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