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title: He spent the few annas he had in the world in buying some writing pa… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He spent the few annas he had in the world in buying some writing paper, an ink pot, a bottle of ink, a pen and an empty box. Who acts: boy. 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 13

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He spent the few annas he had in the world in buying some writing paper, an ink pot, a bottle of ink, a pen and an empty box.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** spend, have, buy · **To what, where:** few annas, world, writing paper

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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 (boy), 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:pg76982:17:13
# text = He spent the few annas he had in the world in buying some writing paper, an ink pot, a bottle of ink, a pen and an empty box.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	annas	anna	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past | boy | the few annas |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anna=Asset |
| 2 | **have** | past | boy |  |  | the world |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **buy** | gerund | boy *not said here* | some writing paper and a ink pot and a bottle of ink and a pen and a empty box |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=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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