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title: Bones of dead men, who died a hundred leagues away are brought almos… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Bones of dead men, who died a hundred leagues away are brought almost daily to be thrown into its waters. Who acts: dead men. 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 4

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Bones of dead men, who died a hundred leagues away are brought almost daily to be thrown into its waters.

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**Who acts:** dead men · **What happens:** die, bring, throw · **To what, where:** Bones, waters

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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 (dead men), 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:pg76982:20:4
# text = Bones of dead men, who died a hundred leagues away are brought almost daily to be thrown into its waters.
1	Bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | dead men |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **bring** | present · passive |  | Bones of dead men |  |  |  | daily *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **throw** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | into part's waters *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into water=Result |

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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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