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title: Even so Mirza Beg with a father’s vigilance pierced his disguise and… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Even so Mirza Beg with a father’s vigilance pierced his disguise and threatened to set his falcons on Abdul Latif, unless he flew away. Who acts: Mirza Beg, Beg. 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 86

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Even so Mirza Beg with a father’s vigilance pierced his disguise and threatened to set his falcons on Abdul Latif, unless he flew away.

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**Who acts:** Mirza Beg, Beg · **What happens:** pierce, threaten, set, fly away · **To what, where:** disguise, falcons, Abdul

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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 (Mirza Beg, Beg), 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:pg76982:9:86
# text = Even so Mirza Beg with a father’s vigilance pierced his disguise and threatened to set his falcons on Abdul Latif, unless he flew away.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
3	Mirza	Mirza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Beg	Beg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	vigilance	vigilance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	falcons	falcon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Abdul	Abdul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	Latif	Latif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pierce** | past | Mirza Beg with a father's vigilance | Beg's disguise |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disguise=Patient |
| 2 | **threaten** | participle | Mirza Beg with a father's vigilance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Mirza Beg with a father's vigilance *not said here* | Beg's falcons |  | Abdul |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent falcon=Theme on abdul=Destination |
| 4 | **fly away** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Beg |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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