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title: But their deaths preyed on his mind and he longed to rejoin the migh… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But their deaths preyed on his mind and he longed to rejoin the mighty river from which he had sprung. Who acts: deaths, Udero, 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 82

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But their deaths preyed on his mind and he longed to rejoin the mighty river from which he had sprung.

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**Who acts:** deaths, Udero, Ratno · **What happens:** prey, long, rejoin, spring, die, mind · **To what, where:** mind, mighty river

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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 (deaths, Udero, 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:pg76982:8:82
# text = But their deaths preyed on his mind and he longed to rejoin the mighty river from which he had sprung.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	preyed	prey	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	rejoin	rejoin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	sprung	spring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prey** | participle | Ratno's deaths |  |  | Udero's mind |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **long** | past | Udero |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **rejoin** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Udero *not said here* | the mighty river |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient |
| 4 | **spring** | past · perfect | Udero |  |  | the mighty river |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from which=Trajectory |
| 5 | **die** |  | Ratno |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **mind** |  | Udero |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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