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title: It is quite shallow and overgrown with tall reeds, the home of innum… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: It is quite shallow and overgrown with tall reeds, the home of innumerable duck. Who acts: name. 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 3

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It is quite shallow and overgrown with tall reeds, the home of innumerable duck.

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**Who acts:** name · **What happens:** be, overgrow

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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 (name), 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:pg76982:13:3
# text = It is quite shallow and overgrown with tall reeds, the home of innumerable duck.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	overgrown	overgrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	innumerable	innumerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | name |  |  |  |  | shallow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **overgrow** | participle | name *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with tall reeds | 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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