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title: When the wild Indian rains hide the hilltops and the plains— Teeming… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: When the wild Indian rains hide the hilltops and the plains— Teeming rain, steaming rain, blotting out the sky— When the breakers leap and fall at the bidding of the squall, Then I think me of England, of England in July. Who acts: wild Indian rains, breakers, I. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind an
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 112

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When the wild Indian rains hide the hilltops and the plains— Teeming rain, steaming rain, blotting out the sky— When the breakers leap and fall at the bidding of the squall, Then I think me of England, of England in July.

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**Who acts:** wild Indian rains, breakers, I · **What happens:** hide, teem, steam, blot out, leap, fall · **To what, where:** hilltops, rain, sky, bidding, squall

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild Indian rains, breakers, I), 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:pg76982:20:112
# text = When the wild Indian rains hide the hilltops and the plains— Teeming rain, steaming rain, blotting out the sky— When the breakers leap and fall at the bidding of the squall, Then I think me of England, of England in July.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rains	rain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hilltops	hilltop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Teeming	teem	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	steaming	steam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
17	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	blotting	blot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
24	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	breakers	breaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	leap	leap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bidding	bidding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	squall	squall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
40	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	ccomp	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | the wild Indian rains | the hilltops and the plains |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hilltop=Patient |
| 2 | **teem** | gerund | the wild Indian rains *not said here* | rain |  |  |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rain=Theme |
| 3 | **steam** | gerund | the wild Indian rains *not said here* | rain |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rain=Patient |
| 4 | **blot out** | gerund | the wild Indian rains *not said here* | the sky |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sky=Destination |
| 5 | **leap** | present | the breakers |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fall** | present | the breakers *not said here* |  |  | the bidding of the squall |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at bidding=Location |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  | then | of England in July; me *ccomp* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **bid** |  |  | the squall |  |  |  |  | nom bidding «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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