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title: On its banks may be seen at any time young Brahmans practising Praya… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: On its banks may be seen at any time young Brahmans practising Prayanam or breathing exercise or doing the Achaman rite, that is to say sipping water while repeating the name of some particular deity. Who acts: young Brahmans, that. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Ro
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 5

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On its banks may be seen at any time young Brahmans practising Prayanam or breathing exercise or doing the Achaman rite, that is to say sipping water while repeating the name of some particular deity.

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**Who acts:** young Brahmans, that · **What happens:** see, practise, breathe, do, be, sip · **To what, where:** young Brahmans, banks, Prayanam, exercise, Achaman rite, water

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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 (young Brahmans, that), 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:pg76982:20:5
# text = On its banks may be seen at any time young Brahmans practising Prayanam or breathing exercise or doing the Achaman rite, that is to say sipping water while repeating the name of some particular deity.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Brahmans	Brahman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
12	practising	practise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	Prayanam	Prayanam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	conj	_	_
16	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Achaman	Achaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	rite	rite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj:outer	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
27	sipping	sip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	repeating	repeat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
35	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	deity	deity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **see** | may · passive |  | young Brahmans |  | part's banks | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: brahman=Stimulus |
| 2 | **practise** | gerund | young Brahmans *not said here* | Prayanam |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **breathe** | gerund | young Brahmans *not said here* | exercise |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exercise=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | gerund | young Brahmans *not said here* | the Achaman rite |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rite=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **sip** | gerund | that *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 7 | **repeat** | gerund | that *not said here* | the name of some particular deity |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Eventuality |
| 8 | **name** |  |  | some particular deity |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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