---
title: While Captain Pauk Wales was swearing horribly, the Swami, shocked b… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: While Captain Pauk Wales was swearing horribly, the Swami, shocked beyond measure, vanished into thin air. Who acts: Pauk Wales, 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/15/34/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/) / [Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/15/) / 34

# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 34

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
While Captain Pauk Wales was swearing horribly, the Swami, shocked beyond measure, vanished into thin air.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Pauk Wales, Swami · **What happens:** swear, vanish · **To what, where:** thin air

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Pauk Wales, Swami), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:15:34
# text = While Captain Pauk Wales was swearing horribly, the Swami, shocked beyond measure, vanished into thin air.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Pauk	Pauk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	swearing	swear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
7	horribly	horribly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Swami	Swami	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	shocked	shocked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
13	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | past · progressive | Pauk Wales |  |  |  |  | horribly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **vanish** | past | the Swami |  |  | thin air |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/15/33/)
- next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/15/35/)
- ↑ back to [Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/15/)