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title: As both could swim, they easily crossed the six water trenches. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: As both could swim, they easily crossed the six water trenches. Who acts: both, swords. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, King Mansing of Sirohi., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 42

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As both could swim, they easily crossed the six water trenches.

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**Who acts:** both, swords · **What happens:** swim, cross · **To what, where:** six water trenches

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, King Mansing of Sirohi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (both, swords), 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:pg76982:16:42
# text = As both could swim, they easily crossed the six water trenches.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	trenches	trench	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | could | both |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cross** | past | swords *= sword* | the six water trenches |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trench=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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