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title: When they lie the sodden leaves on the choking, dripping eaves And t… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: When they lie the sodden leaves on the choking, dripping eaves And the window panes are blurred, then ’tis well to go away! Who acts: breakers. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 115

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When they lie the sodden leaves on the choking, dripping eaves And the window panes are blurred, then ’tis well to go away!

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**Who acts:** breakers · **What happens:** lie, drip, blur, ti, go away · **To what, where:** sodden leaves, choking, dripping eaves

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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 (breakers), 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:pg76982:20:116
# text = When they lie the sodden leaves on the choking, dripping eaves And the window panes are blurred, then ’tis well to go away!
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sodden	sodden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	choking	choking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	dripping	drip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	amod	_	_
12	eaves	eave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	panes	pane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	blurred	blur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
21	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	tis	ti	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | breakers *= breaker* | the sodden leaves |  | the choking |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme |
| 2 | **drip** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **blur** | present · passive |  | dripping eaves and the window panes |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **ti** | present |  |  |  |  | then | well *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go away** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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