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title: In disgust the dead saint bade the streams dry up and all that now r… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: In disgust the dead saint bade the streams dry up and all that now remains of them is a group of stones that look exactly like petrified sugar molasses and milk. Who acts: streams, that, remains, stones. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, A Sind Saint., with its depende
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 104

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In disgust the dead saint bade the streams dry up and all that now remains of them is a group of stones that look exactly like petrified sugar molasses and milk.

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**Who acts:** streams, that, remains, stones · **What happens:** dry up, remains, be, look, petrify · **To what, where:** dead saint bade, group

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, A Sind Saint.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (streams, that, remains, stones), 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:pg76982:7:104
# text = In disgust the dead saint bade the streams dry up and all that now remains of them is a group of stones that look exactly like petrified sugar molasses and milk.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	disgust	disgust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	dry	dry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	20	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	petrified	petrify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
28	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	molasses	molass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry up** | present | the streams | the dead saint bade in disgust *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient bade=Result |
| 2 | **remains** |  | that |  |  |  | now | of remains | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | all remains | a group |  |  |  | of stones | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | present | stones |  |  |  |  | like petrified sugar molasses and milk; exactly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **petrify** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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