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title: When the army appeared at Muran Jharee, they found Swami Vankhandi a… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: When the army appeared at Muran Jharee, they found Swami Vankhandi absorbed in contemplation. Who acts: army, food, Swami. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 12

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When the army appeared at Muran Jharee, they found Swami Vankhandi absorbed in contemplation.

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**Who acts:** army, food, Swami · **What happens:** appear, find, absorb · **To what, where:** Muran, contemplation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (army, food, Swami), 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:pg76982:15:12
# text = When the army appeared at Muran Jharee, they found Swami Vankhandi absorbed in contemplation.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Muran	Muran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	Jharee	Jharee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Swami	Swami	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Vankhandi	Vankhandi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	absorbed	absorb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	contemplation	contemplation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the army |  |  | Muran |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at muran=Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | food |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **absorb** | past | Swami |  |  | contemplation |  |  | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal |

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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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