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title: this book is inscribed in memory of an unclouded and greatly valued… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: this book is inscribed in memory of an unclouded and greatly valued friendship lasting for over thirty years. Who acts: unclouded friendship. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Opening, sentence 7

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this book is inscribed in memory of an unclouded and greatly valued friendship lasting for over thirty years.

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**Who acts:** unclouded friendship · **What happens:** inscribe, uncloud, value, last · **To what, where:** book, memory

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unclouded friendship), 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:pg76982:1:7
# text = this book is inscribed in memory of an unclouded and greatly valued friendship lasting for over thirty years.
1	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	unclouded	uncloud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	valued	value	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
14	lasting	last	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	over	over	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inscribe** | present · passive |  | this book |  | memory of a unclouded friendship |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in memory=Destination |
| 2 | **uncloud** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **value** | past |  |  |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **last** | gerund | a unclouded friendship *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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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