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title: After his death streams of molasses, sugar and milk are said to have… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: After his death streams of molasses, sugar and milk are said to have spurted from the wall of his tomb. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, A Sind Saint., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 99

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After his death streams of molasses, sugar and milk are said to have spurted from the wall of his tomb.

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**What happens:** say, spurt · **To what, where:** wall · **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: 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:pg76982:7:99
# text = After his death streams of molasses, sugar and milk are said to have spurted from the wall of his tomb.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	molasses	molass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	spurted	spurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	xcomp	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  |  |  |  | after Brartrahari's death streams of molasses and sugar and milk |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: clause=Topic |
| 2 | **spurt** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  | the wall of Brartrahari's tomb |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from wall=Source |

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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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