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title: I long tried in vain to learn its history but at last I obtained fro… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: I long tried in vain to learn its history but at last I obtained from Mr. Bherumal, Inspector of Excise, the following legend. Who acts: I. 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 107

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I long tried in vain to learn its history but at last I obtained from Mr. Bherumal, Inspector of Excise, the following legend.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** try, learn, obtain, follow · **To what, where:** vain, history, last

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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 (I), 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:pg76982:13:107
# text = I long tried in vain to learn its history but at last I obtained from Mr. Bherumal, Inspector of Excise, the following legend.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
17	Bherumal	Bherumal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Inspector	inspector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Excise	excise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | I |  |  | vain |  | long *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **learn** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | place's history |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Topic |
| 3 | **obtain** | past | I |  |  | last |  | from Bherumal  Mr. | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from bherumal=Source |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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