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title: A careful comparison has now confirmed the surmise that these antiqu… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: A careful comparison has now confirmed the surmise that these antiquities are closely connected and contemporary with the Sumerian antiquities of southern Mesopotamia, dating from the third or fourth millennium before Christ. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author’s 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 38

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A careful comparison has now confirmed the surmise that these antiquities are closely connected and contemporary with the Sumerian antiquities of southern Mesopotamia, dating from the third or fourth millennium before Christ.

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**What happens:** confirm, connect, date · **To what, where:** careful comparison, antiquities, third millennium

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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: 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:pg76982:2:38
# text = A careful comparison has now confirmed the surmise that these antiquities are closely connected and contemporary with the Sumerian antiquities of southern Mesopotamia, dating from the third or fourth millennium before Christ.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	comparison	comparison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	surmise	surmise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	antiquities	antiquity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Sumerian	sumerian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	antiquities	antiquity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Mesopotamia	Mesopotamia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	dating	date	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	31	amod	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	conj	_	_
31	millennium	millennium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	before	before	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confirm** | present · perfect · passive |  | a careful comparison |  |  | now | the surmise *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **connect** | present · passive |  | this antiquities |  |  |  | the surmise *obj*; closely *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient that=Result |
| 3 | **date** | gerund |  |  |  | the third millennium | before Christ |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=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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