---
title: However, it did not mind a bit, but galloping off with its tail in t… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: However, it did not mind a bit, but galloping off with its tail in the air, plunged into the pool where Rama had performed the obsequies to his dead father. Who acts: beast, galloping, Rama. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dependency tree
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/20/78/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/) / [Round About Nasik.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/20/) / 78

# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 78

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
However, it did not mind a bit, but galloping off with its tail in the air, plunged into the pool where Rama had performed the obsequies to his dead father.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** beast, galloping, Rama · **What happens:** not mind, gallop off, plunge, perform · **To what, where:** bit, air, pool, obsequies

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (beast, galloping, Rama), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:20:78
# text = However, it did not mind a bit, but galloping off with its tail in the air, plunged into the pool where Rama had performed the obsequies to his dead father.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	galloping	gallop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	csubj:pass	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
25	Rama	Rama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	obsequies	obsequy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mind** | past · do-support | beast | a bit |  |  |  | however *property* | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **gallop off** | gerund |  |  |  | the air |  | with beast's tail | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory |
| 3 | **plunge** | participle | galloping |  |  | the pool |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into pool=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **perform** | past · perfect | Rama | the obsequies |  |  |  | to sin's dead father | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent obsequy=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/20/77/)
- next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/20/79/)
- ↑ back to [Round About Nasik.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/20/)