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title: But seeing how downcast Rupsinh looked, he gave him a wand and said… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But seeing how downcast Rupsinh looked, he gave him a wand and said “This is a magic wand. Who acts: seeing, Rupsinh, This. 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 184

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But seeing how downcast Rupsinh looked, he gave him a wand and said “This is a magic wand.

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**Who acts:** seeing, Rupsinh, This · **What happens:** see, look, give, say, be · **To what, where:** downcast Rupsinh, wand, mortal, magic wand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (seeing, Rupsinh, This), 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:pg76982:19:184
# text = But seeing how downcast Rupsinh looked, he gave him a wand and said “This is a magic wand.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	downcast	downcast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Rupsinh	Rupsinh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  | downcast Rupsinh |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rupsinh=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | past | seeing |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **give** | past | Rupsinh | a wand | mortal |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wand=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Rupsinh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | a magic wand |  |  |  |  | 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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