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title: Ratno was sixty and Devki over forty, when Udero Lal was born. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Ratno was sixty and Devki over forty, when Udero Lal was born. 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 7

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Ratno was sixty and Devki over forty, when Udero Lal was born.

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**What happens:** be, bear · **To what, where:** sixty, Udero, Ratno

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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: 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:pg76982:8:7
# text = Ratno was sixty and Devki over forty, when Udero Lal was born.
1	Ratno	Ratno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Devki	Devki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	Udero	Udero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | sixty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | past · passive |  | Udero |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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