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title: It appears that he misused his position by artificially forcing up t… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: It appears that he misused his position by artificially forcing up the price of grain and then selling his stock at a large profit. Who acts: It, 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 97

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It appears that he misused his position by artificially forcing up the price of grain and then selling his stock at a large profit.

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**Who acts:** It, Beg · **What happens:** appear, misuse, force up, sell, stock · **To what, where:** position, price, stock, large profit

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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 (It, 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:pg76982:13:97
# text = It appears that he misused his position by artificially forcing up the price of grain and then selling his stock at a large profit.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	misused	misuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	artificially	artificially	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	forcing	force	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **misuse** | past | Beg | Beg's position |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **force up** | gerund | Beg *not said here* | the price of grain |  |  |  | artificially *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Recipient |
| 4 | **sell** | gerund | Beg *not said here* | Beg's stock |  | a large profit | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent stock=Theme at profit=Asset |
| 5 | **stock** |  | Beg |  |  |  |  |  | nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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