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title: With the translation of the pictographic script on the recently disc… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: With the translation of the pictographic script on the recently discovered seals, some clue or connection with later civilisations may possibly be traced. Who acts: pictographic script. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author’s Preface., with its dependency tree and t
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 43

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With the translation of the pictographic script on the recently discovered seals, some clue or connection with later civilisations may possibly be traced.

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**Who acts:** pictographic script · **What happens:** discover, trace, translate · **To what, where:** seals

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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 (pictographic script), 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:pg76982:2:43
# text = With the translation of the pictographic script on the recently discovered seals, some clue or connection with later civilisations may possibly be traced.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	pictographic	pictographic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	script	script	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
10	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
12	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	clue	clue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	civilisations	civilisation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	traced	trace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **discover** | past |  |  |  |  |  | recently *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **trace** | may · passive | the pictographic script *not said here* | seals and some clue or connection with later civilisations |  |  |  | possibly *property* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **translate** |  | the pictographic script |  |  |  |  |  | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=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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