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title: About a quarter of a mile from the tomb of Shah Makai is another sma… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: About a quarter of a mile from the tomb of Shah Makai is another small but holy building known as Shah Kadam. Who acts: quarter. 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 115

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About a quarter of a mile from the tomb of Shah Makai is another small but holy building known as Shah Kadam.

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**Who acts:** quarter · **What happens:** be, know · **To what, where:** small building

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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 (quarter), 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:pg76982:10:115
# text = About a quarter of a mile from the tomb of Shah Makai is another small but holy building known as Shah Kadam.
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	Makai	Makai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
14	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	Kadam	Kadam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a quarter of a mile from the tomb of Shah | another small building |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | another small building *not said here* |  |  |  | as Shah | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as shah=Attribute |

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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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