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title: It so happened that at this time a rishi of extraordinary powers and… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: It so happened that at this time a rishi of extraordinary powers and merits named Gautama lived near what is now the bed of the Godavari river. Who acts: It, rishi. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 15

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It so happened that at this time a rishi of extraordinary powers and merits named Gautama lived near what is now the bed of the Godavari river.

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**Who acts:** It, rishi · **What happens:** happen, name, live, be · **To what, where:** extraordinary powers, bed

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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 (It, rishi), 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:pg76982:20:15
# text = It so happened that at this time a rishi of extraordinary powers and merits named Gautama lived near what is now the bed of the Godavari river.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rishi	rishi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	merits	merit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
16	Gautama	Gautama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
17	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
18	near	near	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Godavari	Godavari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | extraordinary powers and merits *not said here* |  |  |  | Gautama *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** | past | a rishi of extraordinary powers and merits |  |  |  | time |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the bed | now | of the Godavari river; what *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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