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title: Off it went wagging its tail and barking delightedly at the thought… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Off it went wagging its tail and barking delightedly at the thought of seeing its old master. Who acts: dog, thought. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 21

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Off it went wagging its tail and barking delightedly at the thought of seeing its old master.

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**Who acts:** dog, thought · **What happens:** go, wag, bark, see · **To what, where:** tail, old master

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, thought), 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:pg76982:14:21
# text = Off it went wagging its tail and barking delightedly at the thought of seeing its old master.
1	Off	off	ADP	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wagging	wag	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
9	delightedly	delightedly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wag** | gerund | dog *not said here* | dog's tail |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 3 | **bark** | gerund | dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the thought; delightedly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at thought=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | the thought *not said here* | dog's old master |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus |

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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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