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title: They were about to go away when three other Brahmans came up and one… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: They were about to go away when three other Brahmans came up and one of them asked which was Magadha’s house. Who acts: inhabitants, three other Brahmans, one. 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 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 53

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They were about to go away when three other Brahmans came up and one of them asked which was Magadha’s house.

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**Who acts:** inhabitants, three other Brahmans, one · **What happens:** go away, come up, ask, be · **To what, where:** house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (inhabitants, three other Brahmans, one), 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:pg76982:18:53
# text = They were about to go away when three other Brahmans came up and one of them asked which was Magadha’s house.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Brahmans	Brahman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	up	up	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	Magadha	Magadha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go away** | past | inhabitants *= inhabitant* |  |  |  |  | about, away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come up** | past | three other Brahmans |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | one of inhabitants |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | Magadha's house |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; Magadha *nmod:poss* | 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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