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title: Addicted as he was to the drug, he could do without food, but he cou… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Addicted as he was to the drug, he could do without food, but he could not do without his opium. Who acts: Mansing. 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 66

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Addicted as he was to the drug, he could do without food, but he could not do without his opium.

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**Who acts:** Mansing · **What happens:** addict, be, do, not do

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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 (Mansing), 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:pg76982:16:66
# text = Addicted as he was to the drug, he could do without food, but he could not do without his opium.
1	Addicted	addict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	drug	drug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	without	without	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
20	without	without	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	opium	opium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **addict** | participle | Mansing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | Mansing |  |  |  |  | to the drug | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | could | Mansing |  |  |  |  | without food | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **do** | could | Mansing |  |  |  |  | without Mansing's opium | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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