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title: He watched the pomegranate trees and soon from each fruit there drop… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He watched the pomegranate trees and soon from each fruit there dropped to the earth a tiny fairy. Who acts: Rupsinh, fruit. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 158

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He watched the pomegranate trees and soon from each fruit there dropped to the earth a tiny fairy.

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**Who acts:** Rupsinh, fruit · **What happens:** watch, drop · **To what, where:** pomegranate trees, tiny fairy, earth

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rupsinh, fruit), 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:pg76982:19:158
# text = He watched the pomegranate trees and soon from each fruit there dropped to the earth a tiny fairy.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | Rupsinh | the pomegranate trees |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
| 2 | **drop** | past | each fruit | a tiny fairy |  | the earth |  | soon *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme to earth=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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