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title: But he could only have done that, if one among them was not a true a… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But he could only have done that, if one among them was not a true anchorite and was still thinking of the joys of this world, while pretending to have given them up for ever. Who acts: fakir, one. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, A Sind Saint., with its dependency tr
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 25

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But he could only have done that, if one among them was not a true anchorite and was still thinking of the joys of this world, while pretending to have given them up for ever.

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**Who acts:** fakir, one · **What happens:** do, not be, think, pretend, give up, joy · **To what, where:** that, true anchorite, Lal, world

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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 (fakir, one), 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:pg76982:7:25
# text = But he could only have done that, if one among them was not a true anchorite and was still thinking of the joys of this world, while pretending to have given them up for ever.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
10	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
11	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	anchorite	anchorite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	joys	joy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux	_	_
33	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	xcomp	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	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 | **do** | could · perfect | fakir | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | one | a true anchorite |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | fakir *not said here* |  |  |  | still | of the joys of this world | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pretend** | gerund | fakir *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **give up** | to-infinitive · perfect | fakir *not said here* | Lal |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source |
| 6 | **joy** |  |  | this world |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling 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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