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title: As the grocer had only the one sample they began to quarrel so fierc… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: As the grocer had only the one sample they began to quarrel so fiercely that the grocer in a fright took to his heels and ran out of the shop. Who acts: grocers, grocer. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 70

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As the grocer had only the one sample they began to quarrel so fiercely that the grocer in a fright took to his heels and ran out of the shop.

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**Who acts:** grocers, grocer · **What happens:** have, begin, quarrel, take, run · **To what, where:** one sample, shop

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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 (grocers, grocer), 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:pg76982:17:70
# text = As the grocer had only the one sample they began to quarrel so fiercely that the grocer in a fright took to his heels and ran out of the shop.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	grocer	grocer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	sample	sample	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	grocer	grocer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | the one sample |  |  |  | as the grocer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sample=Patient |
| 2 | **begin** | past | grocers *= grocer* | the one sample *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **quarrel** | to-infinitive | grocers *= grocer* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fiercely *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | past | the grocer in a fright |  |  |  |  | to king's heels *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result |
| 5 | **run** | past | the grocer in a fright *not said here* |  |  | the shop |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out shop=Trajectory |

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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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