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title: And the great seas will roar on the gleaming Arab shore, (White rock… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: And the great seas will roar on the gleaming Arab shore, (White rocks, bright rocks smile at her from me!) Who acts: great seas, bright rocks. 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 119

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And the great seas will roar on the gleaming Arab shore, (White rocks, bright rocks smile at her from me!)

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**Who acts:** great seas, bright rocks · **What happens:** roar, gleam, smile · **To what, where:** gleaming Arab shore, sea

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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 (great seas, bright rocks), 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:pg76982:20:121
# text = And the great seas will roar on the gleaming Arab shore, (White rocks, bright rocks smile at her from me!)
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	roar	roar	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
10	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	smile	smile	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roar** | future | the great seas |  |  | the gleaming Arab shore |  | White rocks *parataxis* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |
| 2 | **gleam** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **smile** | present | bright rocks | sea |  |  |  | from me | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Topic |

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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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