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title: The ruined town of Brahmanabad, probably the most interesting spot i… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The ruined town of Brahmanabad, probably the most interesting spot in Sind, lies about eleven miles from Shahdadpur. Who acts: ruined town. 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 cla
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 125

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The ruined town of Brahmanabad, probably the most interesting spot in Sind, lies about eleven miles from Shahdadpur.

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**Who acts:** ruined town · **What happens:** ruin, lie · **To what, where:** eleven miles, Shahdadpur

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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 (ruined town), 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:pg76982:10:125
# text = The ruined town of Brahmanabad, probably the most interesting spot in Sind, lies about eleven miles from Shahdadpur.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Brahmanabad	Brahmanabad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Sind	Sind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Shahdadpur	Shahdadpur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **ruin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lie** | present | the ruined town of Brahmanabad  the interesting spot in Sind | eleven miles |  | Shahdadpur |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=Theme |

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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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