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title: On the seventh day when they were on the point of drowning all their… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: On the seventh day when they were on the point of drowning all their babies, they saw the river god himself rise from the waves, a beautiful figure, all of snow-white foam. Who acts: banks, point, river. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Udero Lal., with its dependency
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 19

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On the seventh day when they were on the point of drowning all their babies, they saw the river god himself rise from the waves, a beautiful figure, all of snow-white foam.

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**Who acts:** banks, point, river · **What happens:** be, drown, see, go, rise · **To what, where:** point, babies, river, waves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Udero Lal.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (banks, point, river), 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:pg76982:8:19
# text = On the seventh day when they were on the point of drowning all their babies, they saw the river god himself rise from the waves, a beautiful figure, all of snow-white foam.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	drowning	drown	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	god	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | banks *= bank* |  |  | the point |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drown** | gerund | the point *not said here* | banks's babies |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past | banks *= bank* |  |  |  | day | snow white foam *conj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go** | past | the river | river |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **rise** | infinitive | the river *not said here* |  |  | the waves |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from wave=Initial\_Location |

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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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