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title: It meets one on every side—north, south, east and west. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: It meets one on every side—north, south, east and west. Who acts: Province. 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 18

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It meets one on every side—north, south, east and west.

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**Who acts:** Province · **What happens:** meet · **To what, where:** one, side

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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 (Province), 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:pg76982:2:18
# text = It meets one on every side—north, south, east and west.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	north	north	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	south	south	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	east	east	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	west	west	ADV	RB	_	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | Province | one |  | every side |  | east, north *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-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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