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title: Whether any trace of this remote civilisation can be detected in any… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Whether any trace of this remote civilisation can be detected in any of the old legends at present current among the country-folk of Sind, it is impossible to say. 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
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 41

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Whether any trace of this remote civilisation can be detected in any of the old legends at present current among the country-folk of Sind, it is impossible to say.

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**What happens:** detect, be, say · **To what, where:** trace, any · **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: 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:pg76982:2:41
# text = Whether any trace of this remote civilisation can be detected in any of the old legends at present current among the country-folk of Sind, it is impossible to say.
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	remote	remote	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	civilisation	civilisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	detected	detect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	advcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Sind	Sind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	expl	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **detect** | can · passive |  | any trace of this remote civilisation |  | any of the old legends at present current among the country folk of Sind |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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