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title: The anchorite turned towards a big tree close by and consumed it wit… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The anchorite turned towards a big tree close by and consumed it with a single fiery breath. Who acts: anchorite. 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 180

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The anchorite turned towards a big tree close by and consumed it with a single fiery breath.

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**Who acts:** anchorite · **What happens:** turn, consume · **To what, where:** big tree, goal

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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 (anchorite), 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:pg76982:19:180
# text = The anchorite turned towards a big tree close by and consumed it with a single fiery breath.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	anchorite	anchorite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	consumed	consume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the anchorite |  |  | a big tree |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards tree=Trajectory |
| 2 | **consume** | past | the anchorite *not said here* | goal |  |  |  | with a single fiery breath | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |

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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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