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title: Nothing further happened until Udero Lal was a little boy of six, wh… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Nothing further happened until Udero Lal was a little boy of six, when his mother Devki thought that he might help his father by hawking cooked gram too. Who acts: Nothing, Udero, mother. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Udero Lal., with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 57

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Nothing further happened until Udero Lal was a little boy of six, when his mother Devki thought that he might help his father by hawking cooked gram too.

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**Who acts:** Nothing, Udero, mother · **What happens:** happen, be, think, help, hawk, cook · **To what, where:** little boy, father, cooked gram · **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 (Nothing, Udero, mother), 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:pg76982:8:57
# text = Nothing further happened until Udero Lal was a little boy of six, when his mother Devki thought that he might help his father by hawking cooked gram too.
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	further	further	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	Udero	Udero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	Devki	Devki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	hawking	hawk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
27	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	gram	gram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | Nothing |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Udero | a little boy |  |  |  | of six | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Udero's mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | might | Udero |  | Udero's father |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **hawk** | gerund | Udero *not said here* | cooked gram |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gram=Location |
| 6 | **cook** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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