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title: “I want some of the Ganges water for the country side,” replied the… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: “I want some of the Ganges water for the country side,” replied the sage and he told Shiva the story of the sin which he had inadvertently committed. Who acts: sage, Gautama. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 28

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“I want some of the Ganges water for the country side,” replied the sage and he told Shiva the story of the sin which he had inadvertently committed.

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**Who acts:** sage, Gautama · **What happens:** want, reply, tell, have · **To what, where:** some, story, Shiva, sin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sage, Gautama), 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:pg76982:20:28
# text = “I want some of the Ganges water for the country side,” replied the sage and he told Shiva the story of the sin which he had inadvertently committed.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Ganges	Ganges	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
15	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sage	sage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	Shiva	Shiva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	iobj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	inadvertently	inadvertently	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	committed	committed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present | the sage *= sage* | some of the Ganges water |  |  |  | for the country side | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot some=Theme |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the sage |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Gautama | the story of the sin | Shiva |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent shiva=Recipient story=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | past | Gautama | the sin |  |  |  | committed *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |

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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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