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title: The other dealers waited for customers, but the green-grocers shoute… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The other dealers waited for customers, but the green-grocers shouted to the passersby “Pumpkins! Who acts: other dealers, green grocers. 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 16

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The other dealers waited for customers, but the green-grocers shouted to the passersby “Pumpkins!

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**Who acts:** other dealers, green grocers · **What happens:** wait, shout · **To what, where:** passersby

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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 (other dealers, green grocers), 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:pg76982:17:16
# text = The other dealers waited for customers, but the green-grocers shouted to the passersby “Pumpkins!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dealers	dealer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	customers	customer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	grocers	grocer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	passersby	passersby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Pumpkins	pumpkin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | the other dealers |  |  |  |  | for customers | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | the green grocers |  | the passersby and Pumpkins |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to passersby=Recipient |

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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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