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title: And the white clouds above, they will greet my ladylove, And the blu… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: And the white clouds above, they will greet my ladylove, And the blue skies will laugh as she speeds across the main. Who acts: white clouds, blue skies, sky. 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 cla
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 118

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And the white clouds above, they will greet my ladylove, And the blue skies will laugh as she speeds across the main.

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**Who acts:** white clouds, blue skies, sky · **What happens:** greet, laugh, speed · **To what, where:** ladylove, main

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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 (white clouds, blue skies, sky), 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:pg76982:20:120
# text = And the white clouds above, they will greet my ladylove, And the blue skies will laugh as she speeds across the main.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	above	above	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	ladylove	ladylove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	speeds	speed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
22	across	across	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **greet** *speech: greet* | future | the white clouds | my ladylove |  |  |  | clouds *= cloud* *nsubj* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladylove=Theme |
| 2 | **laugh** | future | the blue skies |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **speed** | present | sky |  |  | the main |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across main=Trajectory |

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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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