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title: For several days he made no money at all; but at last the whole city… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: For several days he made no money at all; but at last the whole city got to hear of the new shop and four or five passersby stopped and bought an anna or two worth of wisdom. Who acts: father, last, passersby. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller., with 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 31

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For several days he made no money at all; but at last the whole city got to hear of the new shop and four or five passersby stopped and bought an anna or two worth of wisdom.

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**Who acts:** father, last, passersby · **What happens:** make, get, hear, stop, buy · **To what, where:** money, all, four, anna

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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 (father, last, passersby), 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:pg76982:17:31
# text = For several days he made no money at all; but at last the whole city got to hear of the new shop and four or five passersby stopped and bought an anna or two worth of wisdom.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
17	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	conj	_	_
28	passersby	passerby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	anna	anna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	worth	worth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | father | no money |  | all | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Product |
| 2 | **get** | past | last  the whole city |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hear** | to-infinitive | last  the whole city *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the new shop | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of shop=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stop** | past | passersby | four |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **buy** | past | passersby *not said here* | a anna or two worth of wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anna=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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