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title: But the hillman who knew nothing of the dog’s conduct and did not no… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But the hillman who knew nothing of the dog’s conduct and did not notice the letter round its neck, thought that it had disgraced him by running away from his creditor before he had paid his debt. Who acts: hillman, dog. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 25

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But the hillman who knew nothing of the dog’s conduct and did not notice the letter round its neck, thought that it had disgraced him by running away from his creditor before he had paid his debt.

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**Who acts:** hillman, dog · **What happens:** know, not notice, think, disgrace, run away, pay · **To what, where:** nothing, letter, dog, creditor, hillman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (hillman, dog), 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:pg76982:14:25
# text = But the hillman who knew nothing of the dog’s conduct and did not notice the letter round its neck, thought that it had disgraced him by running away from his creditor before he had paid his debt.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hillman	hillman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	round	round	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
22	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	disgraced	disgrace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	ccomp	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	creditor	creditor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | the hillman | nothing of the dog's conduct |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **notice** | past · do-support | the hillman *not said here* | the letter |  |  |  | round dog's neck | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the hillman |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **disgrace** | past · perfect · passive |  | dog |  |  |  | hillman *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result |
| 5 | **run away** | gerund |  |  |  | hillman's creditor |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from creditor=Trajectory |
| 6 | **pay** | past · perfect · passive |  | hillman |  |  |  | hillman's debt *obj* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient debt=Asset |
| 7 | **conduct** |  | the dog |  |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act 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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