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title: The Indus is terribly dangerous in July and August, when the mighty… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The Indus is terribly dangerous in July and August, when the mighty river swollen by the melting snows of the Himalayas comes tearing and tossing through the gorge. Who acts: Indus, mighty river, Himalayas. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir., with its depende
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 62

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The Indus is terribly dangerous in July and August, when the mighty river swollen by the melting snows of the Himalayas comes tearing and tossing through the gorge.

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**Who acts:** Indus, mighty river, Himalayas · **What happens:** be, swell, come, tear, toss, snow · **To what, where:** mighty river, 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 (Indus, mighty river, Himalayas), 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:pg76982:9:62
# text = The Indus is terribly dangerous in July and August, when the mighty river swollen by the melting snows of the Himalayas comes tearing and tossing through the gorge.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Indus	Indus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	23	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
15	swollen	swell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	melting	melting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	snows	snow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Himalayas	Himalaya	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	tearing	tear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	tossing	toss	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	conj	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	gorge	gorge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Indus |  |  |  | july | dangerous, terribly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **swell** | participle |  | the mighty river *not said here* |  |  |  | by the melting snows of the Himalayas | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **come** | present | the mighty river |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tear** | gerund | the mighty river *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **toss** | gerund | the mighty river *not said here* |  |  | the gorge |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent through gorge=Destination |
| 6 | **snow** |  | the Himalayas |  |  |  |  |  | nom snow «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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