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title: Although the soldiers never closed their eyes all night, Captain Pau… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Although the soldiers never closed their eyes all night, Captain Pauk Wales next day found that not only had the masonry work been thrown down in the night, but that the bricks, mortar and all the building materials collected by him had vanished. Who acts: soldiers, Pauk next day, bricks. A sentence
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 32

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Although the soldiers never closed their eyes all night, Captain Pauk Wales next day found that not only had the masonry work been thrown down in the night, but that the bricks, mortar and all the building materials collected by him had vanished.

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**Who acts:** soldiers, Pauk next day, bricks · **What happens:** not close, find, not have, throw down, collect, vanish · **To what, where:** eyes, masonry work, building materials · **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 (soldiers, Pauk next day, bricks), 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:pg76982:15:32
# text = Although the soldiers never closed their eyes all night, Captain Pauk Wales next day found that not only had the masonry work been thrown down in the night, but that the bricks, mortar and all the building materials collected by him had vanished.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Pauk	Pauk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
13	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	masonry	masonry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	parataxis	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	mortar	mortar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	41	det:predet	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	materials	material	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
42	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **close** | past | the soldiers | soldiers's eyes |  |  | night |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | past | Pauk next day |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **throw down** | participle · passive |  | the masonry work |  |  | night |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **collect** | participle |  | all building materials *not said here* |  |  |  | by action | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **vanish** | past · perfect | the bricks and mortar and all building materials |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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