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title: So violent was the Imam’s curse that it has lived on, monumentum aer… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: So violent was the Imam’s curse that it has lived on, monumentum aere perennius. Who acts: curse. 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 120

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So violent was the Imam’s curse that it has lived on, monumentum aere perennius.

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**Who acts:** curse · **What happens:** be, live on · **To what, where:** violent curse

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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 (curse), 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:pg76982:10:120
# text = So violent was the Imam’s curse that it has lived on, monumentum aere perennius.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Imam	Imam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	monumentum	monumentum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	aere	aere	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	perennius	perennius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the Imam's violent curse and monumentum and perennius |  |  |  | the Imam *nmod:poss*; monumentum and perennius *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live on** | present · perfect | curse | the Imam's violent curse and monumentum and perennius *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme curse=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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