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title: Then, too, think of the circumstances leading up to the birth at Oom… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, too, think of the circumstances leading up to the birth at Oomerkot of that infant who was afterwards to be one of the greatest rulers in Indian history,—the mighty Akbar. Who acts: you, Oomerkot. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author’s Preface., with its depe
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 20

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Then, too, think of the circumstances leading up to the birth at Oomerkot of that infant who was afterwards to be one of the greatest rulers in Indian history,—the mighty Akbar.

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**Who acts:** you, Oomerkot · **What happens:** think, lead up, be · **To what, where:** one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Oomerkot), 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:pg76982:2:20
# text = Then, too, think of the circumstances leading up to the birth at Oomerkot of that infant who was afterwards to be one of the greatest rulers in Indian history,—the mighty Akbar.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Oomerkot	Oomerkot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
18	infant	infant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nmod	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	Akbar	Akbar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then | of the circumstances at Oomerkot of infant  that and the mighty Akbar | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lead up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the birth | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to birth=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Oomerkot of infant  that and the mighty Akbar | one |  |  |  | of the greatest rulers in Indian history; afterwards *property* | 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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