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title: Rama agreed but before he went, he drew with his finger two long lin… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Rama agreed but before he went, he drew with his finger two long lines which together formed a sort of enclosure. Who acts: Rama, Sita. 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 43

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Rama agreed but before he went, he drew with his finger two long lines which together formed a sort of enclosure.

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**Who acts:** Rama, Sita · **What happens:** agree, go, draw, form, sort · **To what, where:** two long lines, enclosure

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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 (Rama, Sita), 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:pg76982:20:43
# text = Rama agreed but before he went, he drew with his finger two long lines which together formed a sort of enclosure.
1	Rama	Rama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
4	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
17	together	together	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	enclosure	enclosure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | Rama |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | Sita |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **draw** | past | Sita | two long lines |  |  |  | with Sita's finger | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme |
| 4 | **form** | past |  | two long lines |  |  |  | a sort of enclosure *obj*; together *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | enclosure |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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