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title: Chota Amrani feared to stay longer in Brahmanabad, so he set out on… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Chota Amrani feared to stay longer in Brahmanabad, so he set out on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Who acts: Chota. 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 150

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Chota Amrani feared to stay longer in Brahmanabad, so he set out on a pilgrimage to Mecca.

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**Who acts:** Chota · **What happens:** fear, stay, set out · **To what, where:** Brahmanabad, pilgrimage

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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 (Chota), 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:pg76982:10:150
# text = Chota Amrani feared to stay longer in Brahmanabad, so he set out on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
1	Chota	Chota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Amrani	Amrani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Brahmanabad	Brahmanabad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | past | Chota |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stay** | to-infinitive | Chota *not said here* |  |  | Brahmanabad |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brahmanabad=Location |
| 3 | **set out** | past | Chota |  |  | a pilgrimage to Mecca |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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