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title: The whole question was admirably discussed in 1854 by Mr. Bellasis o… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The whole question was admirably discussed in 1854 by Mr. Bellasis of the Indian Civil Service. Who acts: Bellasis. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 131

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The whole question was admirably discussed in 1854 by Mr. Bellasis of the Indian Civil Service.

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**Who acts:** Bellasis · **What happens:** discuss · **To what, where:** whole question, 1854

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bellasis), 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:pg76982:10:131
# text = The whole question was admirably discussed in 1854 by Mr. Bellasis of the Indian Civil Service.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	admirably	admirably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	discussed	discuss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1854	1854	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:desc	_	_
11	Bellasis	Bellasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Civil	Civil	PROPN	NNP	_	16	compound	_	_
16	Service	Service	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discuss** *speech: other* | past · passive | Bellasis  Mr. of the Indian Civil Service | the whole question |  | 1854 |  | admirably *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |

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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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