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title: They lived by selling milk and ghi to the rich burghers of Brahmanab… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: They lived by selling milk and ghi to the rich burghers of Brahmanabad. Who acts: tribes. 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 204

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They lived by selling milk and ghi to the rich burghers of Brahmanabad.

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**Who acts:** tribes · **What happens:** live, sell · **To what, where:** milk, rich burghers

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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 (tribes), 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:pg76982:10:204
# text = They lived by selling milk and ghi to the rich burghers of Brahmanabad.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ghi	ghi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	burghers	burgher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Brahmanabad	Brahmanabad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | tribes *= tribe* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sell** | gerund | tribes *= tribe* *not said here* | milk and ghi | the rich burghers of Brahmanabad |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme to burgher=Recipient |

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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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