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title: The tale told about it is the following: Once upon a time there live… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The tale told about it is the following: Once upon a time there lived another great rishi also called Gautama. Who acts: tale. 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 90

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The tale told about it is the following: Once upon a time there lived another great rishi also called Gautama.

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**Who acts:** tale · **What happens:** tell, follow, live, call · **To what, where:** great rishi · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (tale), 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:pg76982:20:90
# text = The tale told about it is the following: Once upon a time there lived another great rishi also called Gautama.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	advmod	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
16	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	rishi	rishi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
21	Gautama	Gautama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the tale |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **follow** | present · progressive | tale |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | past | the tale *not said here* | another great rishi |  | there | time | once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme rishi=Location |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  | another great rishi *not said here* |  |  |  | Gautama *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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