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title: He went to a carpenter and induced him to hollow out a tamarisk tree… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He went to a carpenter and induced him to hollow out a tamarisk tree, that stood by itself in a cemetery. Who acts: ABDUL, that. 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 91

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He went to a carpenter and induced him to hollow out a tamarisk tree, that stood by itself in a cemetery.

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**Who acts:** ABDUL, that · **What happens:** go, induce, hollow out, stand · **To what, where:** carpenter, ABDUL, tamarisk tree, cemetery

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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 (ABDUL, that), 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:pg76982:9:91
# text = He went to a carpenter and induced him to hollow out a tamarisk tree, that stood by itself in a cemetery.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	induced	induce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	hollow	hollow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	tamarisk	tamarisk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | ABDUL |  |  | a carpenter |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to carpenter=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **induce** | past | ABDUL *not said here* | ABDUL |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **hollow out** | to-infinitive | ABDUL *not said here* | a tamarisk tree |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tree=Source |
| 4 | **stand** | past | that |  |  | a cemetery |  | by tree | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by itself=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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