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title: Bathe in it and after bathing eat nothing but cold, stale food. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Bathe in it and after bathing eat nothing but cold, stale food. Who acts: you. 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 37

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Bathe in it and after bathing eat nothing but cold, stale food.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** bathe, eat · **To what, where:** nothing

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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 (you), 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:pg76982:18:37
# text = Bathe in it and after bathing eat nothing but cold, stale food.
1	Bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bathing	bathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	obj	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	stale	stale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bathe** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in pool | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in it=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | present | you *not said here* | nothing  cold stale food |  |  | after bathing |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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