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title: As he walked through the streets, he passed a shop, wherein a woman,… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: As he walked through the streets, he passed a shop, wherein a woman, instead of attending to her customers was reading aloud the Koran. Who acts: Chota, woman. 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 pra
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 152

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As he walked through the streets, he passed a shop, wherein a woman, instead of attending to her customers was reading aloud the Koran.

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**Who acts:** Chota, woman · **What happens:** walk, pass, attend, read · **To what, where:** streets, shop, Koran

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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, woman), 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:pg76982:10:152
# text = As he walked through the streets, he passed a shop, wherein a woman, instead of attending to her customers was reading aloud the Koran.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
13	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	19	mark	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	attending	attend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	customers	customer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
25	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Koran	Koran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | Chota |  |  | the streets |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory |
| 2 | **pass** | past | Chota | a shop |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shop=Trajectory |
| 3 | **attend** | gerund | a woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to woman's customers | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to customer=Theme |
| 4 | **read** | past · progressive | a woman | the Koran |  |  |  | aloud, wherein *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent koran=Topic |

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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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