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title: Then give to Brahmans alms wrapped in pipal leaves.” — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Then give to Brahmans alms wrapped in pipal leaves.” 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 39

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Then give to Brahmans alms wrapped in pipal leaves.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** give, wrap · **To what, where:** Brahmans alms, pipal leaves

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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:pg76982:18:39
# text = Then give to Brahmans alms wrapped in pipal leaves.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Brahmans	Brahman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	alms	alm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	iobj	_	_
6	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	pipal	pipal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | Brahmans alms |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alm=Theme |
| 2 | **wrap** | participle |  | Brahmans alms *not said here* |  | pipal leaves |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in leaf=Destination |

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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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