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title: All round him were jewellers’ shops, cloth shops, green-grocers’ sho… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: All round him were jewellers’ shops, cloth shops, green-grocers’ shops. 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 15

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All round him were jewellers’ shops, cloth shops, green-grocers’ shops.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** be

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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:pg76982:17:15
# text = All round him were jewellers’ shops, cloth shops, green-grocers’ shops.
1	All	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	round	round	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	jewellers	jeweller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	grocers	grocer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | round jewellers's shops and cloth shops and green grocers's shops; jewellers *nmod:poss*; cloth shops *conj*; all *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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