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title: Without suspecting anything he thought over the words and lowering t… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Without suspecting anything he thought over the words and lowering the cup looked intently at its contents. Who acts: king. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 107

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Without suspecting anything he thought over the words and lowering the cup looked intently at its contents.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** suspect, think, lower, look · **To what, where:** anything, words, cup

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg76982:17:107
# text = Without suspecting anything he thought over the words and lowering the cup looked intently at its contents.
1	Without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	suspecting	suspect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
3	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	lowering	lower	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	intently	intently	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suspect** | gerund |  | anything |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent anything=Attribute |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | king |  |  | the words |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lower** | gerund |  | the cup |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | at draught's contents; intently *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at contents=Theme |

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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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