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title: Well the Ganges is a lady as well as a river and after some time Shi… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Well the Ganges is a lady as well as a river and after some time Shiva’s queen, Parvati, grew bitterly jealous of the fair woman, whom her husband carried continually in her hair. Who acts: Ganges, queen, husband. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., w
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 12

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Well the Ganges is a lady as well as a river and after some time Shiva’s queen, Parvati, grew bitterly jealous of the fair woman, whom her husband carried continually in her hair.

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**Who acts:** Ganges, queen, husband · **What happens:** be, grow, carry · **To what, where:** lady, fair woman, hair

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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 (Ganges, queen, husband), 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:pg76982:20:12
# text = Well the Ganges is a lady as well as a river and after some time Shiva’s queen, Parvati, grew bitterly jealous of the fair woman, whom her husband carried continually in her hair.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Ganges	Ganges	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	11	cc	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	Shiva	Shiva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Parvati	Parvati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	obj	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | the Ganges | a lady as a river and some time  Shiva's queen |  |  |  | a river and some time  Shiva's queen *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Shiva's queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | jealous *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | past | Ganges's husband | the fair woman |  | Ganges's hair |  | continually *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Value in hair=Location |

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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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