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title: The crowd at once caught up the cry and were soon shouting “Victory… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The crowd at once caught up the cry and were soon shouting “Victory to Dalu Rai Maharaj” through every lane and byway in the city. Who acts: crowd. 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 e
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 273

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The crowd at once caught up the cry and were soon shouting “Victory to Dalu Rai Maharaj” through every lane and byway in the city.

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**Who acts:** crowd · **What happens:** catch up, shout · **To what, where:** cry, Victory, Dalu, lane, crowd

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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 (crowd), 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:pg76982:10:273
# text = The crowd at once caught up the cry and were soon shouting “Victory to Dalu Rai Maharaj” through every lane and byway in the city.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Dalu	Dalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	Rai	Rai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	Maharaj	Maharaj	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	byway	byway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch up** | participle | the crowd *not said here* | the cry |  |  |  | once *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past · progressive | the crowd *not said here* | Victory | Dalu | every lane and byway in the city |  | soon *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent victory=Topic to dalu=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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