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title: To supply his limited needs he cultivated a little rice field. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: To supply his limited needs he cultivated a little rice field. Who acts: 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 every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 16

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To supply his limited needs he cultivated a little rice field.

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**Who acts:** rishi · **What happens:** supply, need, cultivate · **To what, where:** limited, little rice field

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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 (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:pg76982:20:16
# text = To supply his limited needs he cultivated a little rice field.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	supply	supply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
5	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **supply** | to-infinitive |  | rishi's limited |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limited=Recipient |
| 2 | **need** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **cultivate** | past | rishi | a little rice field |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Product |

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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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