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title: As he tried, he saw the bania’s letter round its neck and learnt too… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: As he tried, he saw the bania’s letter round its neck and learnt too late how innocent the dead dog had been. Who acts: man, bania. 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 30

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As he tried, he saw the bania’s letter round its neck and learnt too late how innocent the dead dog had been.

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**Who acts:** man, bania · **What happens:** try, see, learn, be, letter · **To what, where:** letter

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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 (man, bania), 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:pg76982:14:30
# text = As he tried, he saw the bania’s letter round its neck and learnt too late how innocent the dead dog had been.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bania	bania	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	round	round	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	learnt	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **see** | past | man | the bania's letter |  |  |  | round letter's neck | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus |
| 3 | **learn** | past | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | participle | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | innocent *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **letter** |  | the bania |  |  |  |  | round letter's neck | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent round=obl |

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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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