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title: The faithful, too, of Tatta had been bragging loudly to their neighb… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The faithful, too, of Tatta had been bragging loudly to their neighbours about their future mosque and they now would be exposed to their mocking laughter. Who acts: Tatta. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., with its dependency tre
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 42

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The faithful, too, of Tatta had been bragging loudly to their neighbours about their future mosque and they now would be exposed to their mocking laughter.

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**Who acts:** Tatta · **What happens:** brag, expose · **To what, where:** neighbours, words, mocking laughter

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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 (Tatta), 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:pg76982:10:42
# text = The faithful, too, of Tatta had been bragging loudly to their neighbours about their future mosque and they now would be exposed to their mocking laughter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	Tatta	Tatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux	_	_
10	bragging	brag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	mosque	mosque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	exposed	expose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mocking	mocking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brag** *speech: other* | past · perfect · progressive | Tatta |  | words's neighbours about words's future mosque |  |  | loudly *property* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to neighbour=Recipient |
| 2 | **expose** | would · passive |  | words *= word* | words's mocking laughter |  | now |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to laughter=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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