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title: At last they returned to Kathmandu and just outside the walls, they… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: At last they returned to Kathmandu and just outside the walls, they found the Swami sitting in a deep religious trance, in the shade of a banian tree. Who acts: General, Swami. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., with its dependency tree an
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 17

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At last they returned to Kathmandu and just outside the walls, they found the Swami sitting in a deep religious trance, in the shade of a banian tree.

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**Who acts:** General, Swami · **What happens:** return, find, sit, shade · **To what, where:** Kathmandu, last, Swami, deep religious trance, banian tree

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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 (General, 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:pg76982:15:17
# text = At last they returned to Kathmandu and just outside the walls, they found the Swami sitting in a deep religious trance, in the shade of a banian tree.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Kathmandu	Kathmandu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Swami	Swami	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	trance	trance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	banian	banian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | General |  | Kathmandu and the walls | last |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to kathmandu=Result |
| 2 | **find** | past | General | the Swami |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent swami=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund | the Swami *not said here* |  |  | a deep religious trance |  | in the shade of a banian tree | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in trance=Location |
| 4 | **shade** |  |  | a banian tree |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state 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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