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title: Though the vagaries of the Indus and the severity of the hot season… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Though the vagaries of the Indus and the severity of the hot season in the interior combine quickly to obliterate man’s puny strivings for permanency, material evidence exists in many places of the great vitality and culture of those who have lived before us in this ancient land of Sind. Who acts: v
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 23

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Though the vagaries of the Indus and the severity of the hot season in the interior combine quickly to obliterate man’s puny strivings for permanency, material evidence exists in many places of the great vitality and culture of those who have lived before us in this ancient land of Sind.

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**Who acts:** vagaries, material evidence, great vitality, man · **What happens:** obliterate, exist, live, strive · **To what, where:** puny strivings, many places, ancient land

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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 (vagaries, material evidence, great vitality, man), 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:pg76982:2:23
# text = Though the vagaries of the Indus and the severity of the hot season in the interior combine quickly to obliterate man’s puny strivings for permanency, material evidence exists in many places of the great vitality and culture of those who have lived before us in this ancient land of Sind.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	vagaries	vagary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Indus	Indus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	severity	severity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	interior	interior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	combine	combine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	obliterate	obliterate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	puny	puny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	strivings	striving	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	permanency	permanency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	vitality	vitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	39	nmod	_	_
42	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
43	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	acl:relcl	_	_
45	before	before	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	det	_	_
49	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	Sind	Sind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obliterate** | to-infinitive | the vagaries of the Indus and the severity of the hot season in the interior combine | man's puny strivings |  |  |  | for permanency; quickly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent striving=Patient |
| 2 | **exist** | present | material evidence |  |  | many places of the great vitality and culture of those |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
| 3 | **live** | present · perfect | the great vitality and culture of those |  |  | this ancient land of Sind | before us |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
| 4 | **strive** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom striving «act intransitive»: poss=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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