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title: Most of the articles collected in this little book have appeared in… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of the articles collected in this little book have appeared in the “Daily Gazette” or the “Times of India.” Who acts: Most. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author’s Preface., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 1

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Most of the articles collected in this little book have appeared in the “Daily Gazette” or the “Times of India.”

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**Who acts:** Most · **What happens:** collect, appear · **To what, where:** Daily Gazette, little book

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author’s Preface.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most), 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:pg76982:2:1
# text = Most of the articles collected in this little book have appeared in the “Daily Gazette” or the “Times of India.”
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	articles	article	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	appeared	appear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Gazette	gazette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | past | Most of the articles |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | present · perfect | Most of the articles *not said here* | the Daily Gazette  the Times of India |  | this little book |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in book=Location |

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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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