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title: Udero Lal scratched with his spear the surface of the earth and shew… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Udero Lal scratched with his spear the surface of the earth and shewed the astonished Memon treasures of gold and silver. Who acts: Udero. 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 98

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Udero Lal scratched with his spear the surface of the earth and shewed the astonished Memon treasures of gold and silver.

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**Who acts:** Udero · **What happens:** scratch, shew, treasure · **To what, where:** surface, astonished Memon treasures, gold

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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 (Udero), 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:pg76982:8:98
# text = Udero Lal scratched with his spear the surface of the earth and shewed the astonished Memon treasures of gold and silver.
1	Udero	Udero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	scratched	scratch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	shewed	shew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Memon	Memon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scratch** | past | Udero | the surface of the earth |  |  |  | with Udero's spear | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surface=Patient with spear=Instrument |
| 2 | **shew** | past | Udero *not said here* | the astonished Memon treasures of gold and silver |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **treasure** |  |  | gold and silver |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=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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