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title: And because he drank the waters of immortality, he is always connect… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: And because he drank the waters of immortality, he is always connected with running water; and with what nobler stream, could he be associated than the Indus, as it passes through the Sukkur gorge? Who acts: God, stream. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir., wi
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 58

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And because he drank the waters of immortality, he is always connected with running water; and with what nobler stream, could he be associated than the Indus, as it passes through the Sukkur gorge?

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**Who acts:** God, stream · **What happens:** drink, connect, run, associate, pass · **To what, where:** waters, God, Sukkur gorge

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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 (God, stream), 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:pg76982:9:58
# text = And because he drank the waters of immortality, he is always connected with running water; and with what nobler stream, could he be associated than the Indus, as it passes through the Sukkur gorge?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	immortality	immortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	parataxis	_	_
21	nobler	noble	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	associated	associate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Indus	Indus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
35	through	through	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Sukkur	Sukkur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	gorge	gorge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | God | the waters of immortality |  |  |  | what  nobler stream *parataxis* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 2 | **connect** | present · passive |  | God |  |  |  | with running water; always *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with water=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **associate** | could · passive |  | God |  |  |  | than the Indus | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **pass** | present | stream |  |  | the Sukkur gorge |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gorge=Location |

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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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