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title: He opened his third eye and with it burnt up the sun, the earth and… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He opened his third eye and with it burnt up the sun, the earth and last but not least Brahmadev’s fifth head. Who acts: story, Brahmadev. 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 60

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He opened his third eye and with it burnt up the sun, the earth and last but not least Brahmadev’s fifth head.

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**Who acts:** story, Brahmadev · **What happens:** open, burnt up, head · **To what, where:** third eye, fun

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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 (story, Brahmadev), 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:pg76982:20:60
# text = He opened his third eye and with it burnt up the sun, the earth and last but not least Brahmadev’s fifth head.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	nmod	_	_
21	Brahmadev	Brahmadev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | story | story's third eye |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme |
| 2 | **burnt up** | participle · passive |  | fun |  |  |  | the sun and the earth *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **head** |  | Brahmadev  least |  |  |  |  |  | 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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