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title: Now it so chanced that the Brohi hillman had by working in the plain… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it so chanced that the Brohi hillman had by working in the plains saved a sum sufficient to pay off his debt and he was returning to the hills to do so. Who acts: dog, Brohi hillman, hillman. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., with it
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 22

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Now it so chanced that the Brohi hillman had by working in the plains saved a sum sufficient to pay off his debt and he was returning to the hills to do so.

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**Who acts:** dog, Brohi hillman, hillman · **What happens:** chance, have, work, save, pay off, return · **To what, where:** sum, plains, debt

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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, Brohi hillman, hillman), 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:pg76982:14:22
# text = Now it so chanced that the Brohi hillman had by working in the plains saved a sum sufficient to pay off his debt and he was returning to the hills to do so.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	chanced	chance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Brohi	Brohi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	hillman	hillman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
15	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	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 | **chance** | past | dog |  |  |  | now |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | the Brohi hillman |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | gerund | the Brohi hillman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **save** | past | the Brohi hillman *not said here* | a sum |  | the plains |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme |
| 5 | **pay off** | to-infinitive | the Brohi hillman *not said here* | hillman's debt |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset |
| 6 | **return** | past · progressive | hillman |  |  |  |  | to the hills *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to hill=Result |
| 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | hillman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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