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title: That night both Captain Pauk Wales and his wife were seized with int… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: That night both Captain Pauk Wales and his wife were seized with internal pains of an agonising description. 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 35

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That night both Captain Pauk Wales and his wife were seized with internal pains of an agonising description.

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**What happens:** seize, agonise, pain · **To what, where:** night, agonising description

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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: 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:pg76982:15:35
# text = That night both Captain Pauk Wales and his wife were seized with internal pains of an agonising description.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Pauk	Pauk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	internal	internal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	agonising	agonise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past · passive |  | that night and Captain Pauk Wales and Wales's wife |  |  |  | with internal pains of a agonising description | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **agonise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pain** |  |  | a agonising description |  |  |  |  | nom pain «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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