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title: Shortly afterwards, the parrot and the maina flew away, leaving the… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Shortly afterwards, the parrot and the maina flew away, leaving the minister sadder even than he had been the previous day. Who acts: parrot, minister. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 69

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Shortly afterwards, the parrot and the maina flew away, leaving the minister sadder even than he had been the previous day.

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**Who acts:** parrot, minister · **What happens:** fly away, leave, be · **To what, where:** minister, previous day

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parrot, minister), 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:pg76982:11:69
# text = Shortly afterwards, the parrot and the maina flew away, leaving the minister sadder even than he had been the previous day.
1	Shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	maina	maina	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	sadder	sad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
17	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly away** | past | the parrot and the maina |  |  |  |  | afterwards, away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | the parrot and the maina *not said here* | the minister |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past · perfect | minister | the previous day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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