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title: They had barely done so, when a rich merchant of Shikarpur came to S… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: They had barely done so, when a rich merchant of Shikarpur came to Sadh Belo with a precious necklace of pearls for Vankhandi, of whose death he was unaware. Who acts: disciples, rich merchant, merchant. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 46

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They had barely done so, when a rich merchant of Shikarpur came to Sadh Belo with a precious necklace of pearls for Vankhandi, of whose death he was unaware.

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**Who acts:** disciples, rich merchant, merchant · **What happens:** do, come, be · **To what, where:** 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 (disciples, rich merchant, merchant), 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:pg76982:15:46
# text = They had barely done so, when a rich merchant of Shikarpur came to Sadh Belo with a precious necklace of pearls for Vankhandi, of whose death he was unaware.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	barely	barely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Shikarpur	Shikarpur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Sadh	Sadh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	Belo	Belo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	necklace	necklace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Vankhandi	Vankhandi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	unaware	unaware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · perfect | disciples *= disciple* |  |  |  |  | barely *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | a rich merchant of Shikarpur |  |  | Sadh |  | with a precious necklace of pearls for Vankhandi | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sadh=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | merchant |  |  |  |  | of death; unaware *property* | tree rules |

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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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