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title: One night a band of fierce robbers broke into the house of the bania… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: One night a band of fierce robbers broke into the house of the bania, over-powered the inmates and carried off the savings of the merchant’s life-time. Who acts: band. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 9

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One night a band of fierce robbers broke into the house of the bania, over-powered the inmates and carried off the savings of the merchant’s life-time.

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**Who acts:** band · **What happens:** break, over-power, carry off, save · **To what, where:** house, inmates, savings, life time

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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 (band), 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:pg76982:14:9
# text = One night a band of fierce robbers broke into the house of the bania, over-powered the inmates and carried off the savings of the merchant’s life-time.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bania	bania	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	over-powered	over-power	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	inmates	inmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	savings	savings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | a band of fierce robbers |  |  |  | night | into the house of the bania *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into house=Result |
| 2 | **over-power** | past | a band of fierce robbers *not said here* | the inmates |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry off** | past | a band of fierce robbers *not said here* | the savings of the merchant's life time |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent savings=Theme |
| 4 | **save** |  |  | the merchant's life time |  |  |  |  | nom savings «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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