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title: Once upon a time a rich Brohi hillman owned a very faithful and obed… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Once upon a time a rich Brohi hillman owned a very faithful and obedient dog. Who acts: rich Brohi hillman. 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 3

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Once upon a time a rich Brohi hillman owned a very faithful and obedient dog.

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**Who acts:** rich Brohi hillman · **What happens:** own · **To what, where:** faithful dog

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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 (rich Brohi 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:pg76982:14:3
# text = Once upon a time a rich Brohi hillman owned a very faithful and obedient dog.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Brohi	Brohi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	hillman	hillman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	obedient	obedient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | past | a rich Brohi hillman | a faithful dog |  |  |  | once *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dog=Theme |

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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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