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title: Ratno hawked cooked gram and was a devout worshipper of the Indus ri… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Ratno hawked cooked gram and was a devout worshipper of the Indus river. Who acts: Ratno. 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 5

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Ratno hawked cooked gram and was a devout worshipper of the Indus river.

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**Who acts:** Ratno · **What happens:** hawk, cook, be · **To what, where:** cooked gram, devout worshipper

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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 (Ratno), 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:pg76982:8:5
# text = Ratno hawked cooked gram and was a devout worshipper of the Indus river.
1	Ratno	Ratno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hawked	hawk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	gram	gram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	devout	devout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	worshipper	worshipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Indus	Indus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hawk** | past | Ratno | cooked gram |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gram=Location |
| 2 | **cook** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Ratno *not said here* | a devout worshipper |  |  |  | of the Indus river | 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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