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title: He made a flower float on the milk and returned the cup, thereby she… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He made a flower float on the milk and returned the cup, thereby shewing to the fakirs that there was still room for yet another holy man and that the newcomer meant to be above the others, even as the flower was above the milk. Who acts: Sehwan, newcomer, flower. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind a
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 68

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He made a flower float on the milk and returned the cup, thereby shewing to the fakirs that there was still room for yet another holy man and that the newcomer meant to be above the others, even as the flower was above the milk.

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**Who acts:** Sehwan, newcomer, flower · **What happens:** make, return, shew, mean, be · **To what, where:** flower float, milk, cup, room, others · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Sehwan, newcomer, flower), 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:pg76982:7:68
# text = He made a flower float on the milk and returned the cup, thereby shewing to the fakirs that there was still room for yet another holy man and that the newcomer meant to be above the others, even as the flower was above the milk.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	float	float	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	shewing	shew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fakirs	fakir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
27	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	newcomer	newcomer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
36	above	above	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
40	even	even	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
41	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
45	above	above	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Sehwan | a flower float |  | the milk |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent float=Product |
| 2 | **return** | past | Sehwan *not said here* | the cup |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme |
| 3 | **shew** | gerund | Sehwan *not said here* | room |  |  |  | to the fakirs; for another holy man; thereby *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | past | the newcomer |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the others |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | the flower |  |  | the milk |  |  | 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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