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title: Fortunately for the “Famine Man” the Public Works Department have ta… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Fortunately for the “Famine Man” the Public Works Department have taken charge of his tomb and have removed the stones. Who acts: Works Department. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 102

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Fortunately for the “Famine Man” the Public Works Department have taken charge of his tomb and have removed the stones.

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**Who acts:** Works Department · **What happens:** take, remove, charge · **To what, where:** charge, stones, tomb

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Works Department), 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:pg76982:13:102
# text = Fortunately for the “Famine Man” the Public Works Department have taken charge of his tomb and have removed the stones.
1	Fortunately	fortunately	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Public	Public	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Works	Works	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	compound	_	_
11	Department	Department	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · perfect | the Works Department | charge of Department's tomb |  |  |  | fortunately *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme |
| 2 | **remove** | present · perfect | the Works Department *not said here* | the stones |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 3 | **charge** |  |  | Department's tomb |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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