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title: His father did not understand, but undid the knot and finding the pa… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: His father did not understand, but undid the knot and finding the paper read “It is not wise to stand and watch two people fighting.” Who acts: father, finding, two people. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller., with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 50

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His father did not understand, but undid the knot and finding the paper read “It is not wise to stand and watch two people fighting.”

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**Who acts:** father, finding, two people · **What happens:** not understand, undo, find, read, not be, stand · **To what, where:** knot, paper, two people · **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 (father, finding, two people), 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:pg76982:17:50
# text = His father did not understand, but undid the knot and finding the paper read “It is not wise to stand and watch two people fighting.”
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	undid	undo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	expl	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	csubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **understand** | past · do-support | VIDHYA's father |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **undo** | past |  | the knot |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | gerund |  | the paper |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Topic |
| 4 | **read** | past | finding |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | finding *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **stand** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **watch** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | two people |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 8 | **fight** *in a quote* | gerund | two people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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