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title: Vidhya went home and said to his father “I have bought some wisdom f… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Vidhya went home and said to his father “I have bought some wisdom for two pice and it is tied inside my scarf. 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 48

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Vidhya went home and said to his father “I have bought some wisdom for two pice and it is tied inside my scarf.

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**Who acts:** Vidhya · **What happens:** go, say, buy, tie · **To what, where:** father, wisdom, scarf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg76982:17:48
# text = Vidhya went home and said to his father “I have bought some wisdom for two pice and it is tied inside my scarf.
1	Vidhya	Vidhya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	pice	pice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
22	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	scarf	scarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Vidhya |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Vidhya *not said here* |  | VIDHYA's father |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient |
| 3 | **buy** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Vidhya | some wisdom |  |  |  | for two pice | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme for pice=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **tie** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Wisdom |  | my scarf |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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