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title: He was convinced that the masons and the Swami were acting in collus… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He was convinced that the masons and the Swami were acting in collusion and he set a guard of English soldiers over Sadh Belo. Who acts: action, masons. 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 ever
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 31

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He was convinced that the masons and the Swami were acting in collusion and he set a guard of English soldiers over Sadh Belo.

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**Who acts:** action, masons · **What happens:** be, act, set · **To what, where:** collusion, guard, Sadh

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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 (action, masons), 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:pg76982:15:31
# text = He was convinced that the masons and the Swami were acting in collusion and he set a guard of English soldiers over Sadh Belo.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	convinced	convinced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	masons	mason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Swami	Swami	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	acting	act	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	collusion	collusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Sadh	Sadh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	Belo	Belo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | action |  |  |  |  | convinced *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **act** | past · progressive | the masons and the Swami |  |  | collusion |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **set** | past | action | a guard of English soldiers |  | Sadh |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guard=Theme over sadh=Destination |

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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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