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title: Once firmly seated in its upper branches, he made the wretched veget… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Once firmly seated in its upper branches, he made the wretched vegetable drag its roots from Larkana to Kambar, a distance of twelve miles. Who acts: Adam. 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 118

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Once firmly seated in its upper branches, he made the wretched vegetable drag its roots from Larkana to Kambar, a distance of twelve miles.

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**Who acts:** Adam · **What happens:** seat, make · **To what, where:** upper branches, wretched vegetable drag, Kambar, Larkana

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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 (Adam), 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:pg76982:13:118
# text = Once firmly seated in its upper branches, he made the wretched vegetable drag its roots from Larkana to Kambar, a distance of twelve miles.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
2	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	drag	drag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Larkana	Larkana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Kambar	Kambar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | participle |  |  |  | tree's upper branches |  | firmly, once *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in branch=Location |
| 2 | **make** | past | Adam | the wretched vegetable drag  tree's roots | Kambar | Larkana |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent drag=Product from larkana=Material |

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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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