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title: The boy had to leave school and try to keep his mother and younger b… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy had to leave school and try to keep his mother and younger brothers and sisters. 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 5

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The boy had to leave school and try to keep his mother and younger brothers and sisters.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** have, leave, try, keep · **To what, where:** school, mother

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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:pg76982:17:5
# text = The boy had to leave school and try to keep his mother and younger brothers and sisters.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | the boy *not said here* | school |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | infinitive | the boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the boy *not said here* | boy's mother and younger brothers and sisters |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=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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