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title: The Brahman who had spoken, said “Yes, I am Magadha’s brother and th… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The Brahman who had spoken, said “Yes, I am Magadha’s brother and these two are our kinsmen. Who acts: Brahman, these. 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 57

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The Brahman who had spoken, said “Yes, I am Magadha’s brother and these two are our kinsmen.

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**Who acts:** Brahman, these · **What happens:** speak, say, be · **To what, where:** two kinsmen · **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 (Brahman, these), 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:pg76982:18:57
# text = The Brahman who had spoken, said “Yes, I am Magadha’s brother and these two are our kinsmen.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Brahman	brahman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	Magadha	Magadha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	kinsmen	kinsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect | the Brahman |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Brahman |  |  |  |  | Magadha brother and our two kinsmen *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Brahman *= brahman* |  |  |  |  | 's Magadha | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | these | our two kinsmen |  |  |  | our *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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