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title: Earnest Christians will hear with surprise that he is none other tha… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Earnest Christians will hear with surprise that he is none other than their old friend the prophet Elijah. Who acts: Earnest Christians, A.D. 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 21

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Earnest Christians will hear with surprise that he is none other than their old friend the prophet Elijah.

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**Who acts:** Earnest Christians, A.D · **What happens:** hear, be · **To what, where:** none

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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 (Earnest Christians, A.D), 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:pg76982:9:21
# text = Earnest Christians will hear with surprise that he is none other than their old friend the prophet Elijah.
1	Earnest	Earnest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | future | Earnest Christians |  |  |  |  | with surprise | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | A.D | none |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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