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title: She gave him a tiny jar of cooked gram and bade him hawk it through… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: She gave him a tiny jar of cooked gram and bade him hawk it through the streets of Nasarpur, taking payment either in cash or in kind. Who acts: mother, tiny jar. 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 58

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She gave him a tiny jar of cooked gram and bade him hawk it through the streets of Nasarpur, taking payment either in cash or in kind.

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**Who acts:** mother, tiny jar · **What happens:** give, cook, hawk, take · **To what, where:** Udero, gram, streets, payment, cash

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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 (mother, tiny jar), 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:pg76982:8:58
# text = She gave him a tiny jar of cooked gram and bade him hawk it through the streets of Nasarpur, taking payment either in cash or in kind.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	gram	gram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
13	hawk	hawk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Nasarpur	Nasarpur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
22	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | mother |  | Udero |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **cook** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hawk** | present | a tiny jar of cooked gram  Udero and bade | gram |  | the streets of Nasarpur |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Location |
| 4 | **take** | gerund | a tiny jar of cooked gram  Udero and bade *not said here* | payment |  | cash or kind |  | either *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent payment=Value in cash=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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