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title: They were pouring milk over it and as they did so, they repeated “O… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: They were pouring milk over it and as they did so, they repeated “O Grandmother, drink this milk.” Who acts: lamentations. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 101

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They were pouring milk over it and as they did so, they repeated “O Grandmother, drink this milk.”

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**Who acts:** lamentations · **What happens:** pour, do, repeat, drink · **To what, where:** milk · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamentations), 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:pg76982:9:101
# text = They were pouring milk over it and as they did so, they repeated “O Grandmother, drink this milk.”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	17	case	_	_
17	Grandmother	Grandmother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour** | past · progressive | lamentations *= lamentation* | milk |  | milk |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | past | lamentations *= lamentation* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **repeat** | past | lamentations *= lamentation* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive | lamentations *= lamentation* *not said here* | this milk |  |  |  | of Grandmother | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=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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