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title: He gave his mud stronghold to the Fakirs who guarded Shah Makai’s to… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He gave his mud stronghold to the Fakirs who guarded Shah Makai’s tomb. Who acts: Ghulam, Fakirs. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 111

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He gave his mud stronghold to the Fakirs who guarded Shah Makai’s tomb.

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**Who acts:** Ghulam, Fakirs · **What happens:** give, guard · **To what, where:** mud stronghold, Fakirs, tomb

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ghulam, Fakirs), 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:pg76982:10:111
# text = He gave his mud stronghold to the Fakirs who guarded Shah Makai’s tomb.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	stronghold	stronghold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Fakirs	fakir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	guarded	guard	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Makai	Makai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
14	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Ghulam | Ghulam's mud stronghold | the Fakirs |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent stronghold=Theme to fakir=Recipient |
| 2 | **guard** | past | the Fakirs | Shah's tomb |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Beneficiary |

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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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