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title: At the same time there were many skeletons visible in corners and do… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: At the same time there were many skeletons visible in corners and doorways—the skeletons of men and women overwhelmed, no doubt, as they sought to escape. Who acts: skeletons. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., with its dependency 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 136

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At the same time there were many skeletons visible in corners and doorways—the skeletons of men and women overwhelmed, no doubt, as they sought to escape.

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**Who acts:** skeletons · **What happens:** be, overwhelm, seek, escape · **To what, where:** corners

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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 (skeletons), 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:pg76982:10:136
# text = At the same time there were many skeletons visible in corners and doorways—the skeletons of men and women overwhelmed, no doubt, as they sought to escape.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
9	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	doorways	doorway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	overwhelmed	overwhelm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | corners and doorways |  | no doubt *conj*; visible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **overwhelm** | past | the skeletons of men and women | corners and doorways *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus corner=Experiencer |
| 3 | **seek** | past | skeletons *= skeleton* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **escape** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | skeletons *= skeleton* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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