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title: But after shedding some tears, she took courage and began to earn he… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But after shedding some tears, she took courage and began to earn her living as a day labourer. Who acts: Rupvati. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Magadha and Rupvati., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 21

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But after shedding some tears, she took courage and began to earn her living as a day labourer.

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**Who acts:** Rupvati · **What happens:** shed, take, begin, earn, live · **To what, where:** tears, courage, living

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Magadha and Rupvati.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rupvati), 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:pg76982:18:21
# text = But after shedding some tears, she took courage and began to earn her living as a day labourer.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	shedding	shed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	labourer	labourer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shed** | gerund | Rupvati *not said here* | some tears |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source |
| 2 | **take** | past | Rupvati | courage |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Rupvati *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **earn** | to-infinitive | Rupvati *not said here* | Rupvati's living |  |  |  | as a day labourer | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme |
| 5 | **live** |  | Rupvati |  |  |  |  |  | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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