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description: Then through Parvati’s and Ganpati’s combined contrivance, the monsoon failed. Who acts: monsoon. 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 23

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Then through Parvati’s and Ganpati’s combined contrivance, the monsoon failed.

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**Who acts:** monsoon · **What happens:** combine, fail · **To what, where:** contrivance, Parvati ’s

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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 (monsoon), 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:pg76982:20:23
# text = Then through Parvati’s and Ganpati’s combined contrivance, the monsoon failed.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	Parvati	Parvati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Ganpati	Ganpati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	'	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
8	combined	combine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	contrivance	contrivance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	monsoon	monsoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **combine** | past |  | contrivance |  | Parvati ’s | then |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contrivance=Patient |
| 2 | **fail** | past | the monsoon |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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