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title: In course of time the good old Brahman died and after his death the… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: In course of time the good old Brahman died and after his death the family became so poor that the two brothers resolved to leave Avanti and seek their fortune elsewhere. Who acts: good old Brahman, family, two brothers, Brahman. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Magad
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 8

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In course of time the good old Brahman died and after his death the family became so poor that the two brothers resolved to leave Avanti and seek their fortune elsewhere.

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**Who acts:** good old Brahman, family, two brothers, Brahman · **What happens:** die, become, resolve, leave, seek · **To what, where:** Avanti, fortune

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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 (good old Brahman, family, two brothers, 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:pg76982:18:8
# text = In course of time the good old Brahman died and after his death the family became so poor that the two brothers resolved to leave Avanti and seek their fortune elsewhere.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	good	good	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	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	Avanti	Avanti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | the good old Brahman |  |  |  | time |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **become** | past | the family |  |  |  | after Brahman's death | poor *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **resolve** | past | the two brothers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | to-infinitive | the two brothers *not said here* | Avanti |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent avanti=Theme |
| 5 | **seek** | infinitive | the two brothers *not said here* | brothers's fortune |  |  |  | elsewhere *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme |
| 6 | **die** |  | Brahman |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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