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title: The neighbours of Gautama sowed their crops, the Ganges having lost… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The neighbours of Gautama sowed their crops, the Ganges having lost the fairest portion of her waters lost half her beauty and Parvati ceased to be jealous. Who acts: neighbours, fairest portion, Parvati. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its d
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 31

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The neighbours of Gautama sowed their crops, the Ganges having lost the fairest portion of her waters lost half her beauty and Parvati ceased to be jealous.

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**Who acts:** neighbours, fairest portion, Parvati · **What happens:** sow, have, lose, cease, be · **To what, where:** crops, beauty

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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 (neighbours, fairest portion, Parvati), 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:pg76982:20:31
# text = The neighbours of Gautama sowed their crops, the Ganges having lost the fairest portion of her waters lost half her beauty and Parvati ceased to be jealous.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Gautama	Gautama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	sowed	sow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Ganges	Ganges	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
20	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	22	det:predet	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	Parvati	Parvati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sow** | past | the neighbours of Gautama | neighbours's crops  the Ganges |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crop=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | the neighbours of Gautama *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** | participle | the fairest portion of portion's waters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lose** | past | the fairest portion of portion's waters | portion's beauty |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Eventuality |
| 5 | **cease** | past | Parvati |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | Parvati *not said here* |  |  |  |  | jealous *property* | 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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