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title: In his grief, he bore the dog’s body to the highest peak of the neig… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: In his grief, he bore the dog’s body to the highest peak of the neighbouring mountains and buried it there. Who acts: man. 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 31

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In his grief, he bore the dog’s body to the highest peak of the neighbouring mountains and buried it there.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** bear, neighbour, bury · **To what, where:** body, grief, 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 (man), 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:pg76982:14:31
# text = In his grief, he bore the dog’s body to the highest peak of the neighbouring mountains and buried it there.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bore	bear	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	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past | man | the dog's body |  | man's grief |  | to the highest peak of the neighbouring mountains | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 2 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bury** | past | man *not said here* | dog |  | there |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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