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title: Among the latter was a pious old Brahman called Vishnupriya or dear… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the latter was a pious old Brahman called Vishnupriya or dear to the Lord Vishnu. Who acts: pious old Brahman. 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 4

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Among the latter was a pious old Brahman called Vishnupriya or dear to the Lord Vishnu.

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**Who acts:** pious old Brahman · **What happens:** be

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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 (pious old Brahman), 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:pg76982:18:4
# text = Among the latter was a pious old Brahman called Vishnupriya or dear to the Lord Vishnu.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Vishnupriya	Vishnupriya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Vishnu	Vishnu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a pious old Brahman |  |  |  |  | among the latter; Vishnupriya *xcomp*; call *property* | tree rules |

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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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