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title: One day Vidhya passed the Brahman boy’s shop and heard him shout “Wi… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: One day Vidhya passed the Brahman boy’s shop and heard him shout “Wisdom! Who acts: Vidhya. 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 38

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One day Vidhya passed the Brahman boy’s shop and heard him shout “Wisdom!

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**Who acts:** Vidhya · **What happens:** pass, hear, shout · **To what, where:** shop, VIDHYA, Wisdom

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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 (Vidhya), 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:pg76982:17:38
# text = One day Vidhya passed the Brahman boy’s shop and heard him shout “Wisdom!
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Vidhya	Vidhya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **pass** | past | Vidhya | the Brahman boy's shop |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shop=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Vidhya *not said here* | VIDHYA |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive | VIDHYA *not said here* | Wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Topic |

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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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