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title: Aho was about to seize it, when it changed instantly into a youth of… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Aho was about to seize it, when it changed instantly into a youth of sixteen, then into an old man and once more into an infant. Who acts: Aho, governor. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Udero Lal., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 25

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Aho was about to seize it, when it changed instantly into a youth of sixteen, then into an old man and once more into an infant.

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**Who acts:** Aho, governor · **What happens:** be, seize, change · **To what, where:** governor, youth

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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 (Aho, governor), 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:pg76982:8:25
# text = Aho was about to seize it, when it changed instantly into a youth of sixteen, then into an old man and once more into an infant.
1	Aho	Aho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	conj	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	infant	infant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Aho |  |  |  |  | a old man *conj*; about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **seize** | to-infinitive | Aho *not said here* | governor |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **change** | past | governor |  |  |  |  | into a youth of sixteen *result*; instantly *property* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into youth=Result |

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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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