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title: Entrenching himself behind the river Phito, he withstood for some mo… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Entrenching himself behind the river Phito, he withstood for some months the imperial forces. Who acts: Beg. 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 80

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Entrenching himself behind the river Phito, he withstood for some months the imperial forces.

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**Who acts:** Beg · **What happens:** entrench, withstand · **To what, where:** Beg, river, imperial forces

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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 (Beg), 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:pg76982:13:80
# text = Entrenching himself behind the river Phito, he withstood for some months the imperial forces.
1	Entrenching	entrench	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	Phito	Phito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	withstood	withstand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **entrench** | gerund | Beg *not said here* | Beg |  | the river |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **withstand** | past | Beg | the imperial forces |  |  | month |  | 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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