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title: The Brohi was at one time rich, but from one cause or another he los… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The Brohi was at one time rich, but from one cause or another he lost his wealth and of all his riches nothing was left to him but his dog. Who acts: 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 prag
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 4

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The Brohi was at one time rich, but from one cause or another he lost his wealth and of all his riches nothing was left to him but his dog.

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**Who acts:** Brohi, hillman · **What happens:** be, lose, leave · **To what, where:** wealth, one cause, nothing, hillman

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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 (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:pg76982:14:4
# text = The Brohi was at one time rich, but from one cause or another he lost his wealth and of all his riches nothing was left to him but his dog.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Brohi	Brohi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	conj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | past | the Brohi |  |  |  | time | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | past | hillman | hillman's wealth |  | one cause |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme from cause=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **leave** | past · passive |  | nothing | hillman |  |  | of hillman's riches | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient |

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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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