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title: The maiden’s name was Fatima and she readily undertook the instructi… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The maiden’s name was Fatima and she readily undertook the instruction of the foreign girl, who had come from so far off to see Mecca. Who acts: name, Fatima, foreign girl, maiden. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., with its depend
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 163

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The maiden’s name was Fatima and she readily undertook the instruction of the foreign girl, who had come from so far off to see Mecca.

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**Who acts:** name, Fatima, foreign girl, maiden · **What happens:** be, undertake, come, see, name, instruct · **To what, where:** Fatima, instruction, Mecca, foreign girl

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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 (name, Fatima, foreign girl, maiden), 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:pg76982:10:163
# text = The maiden’s name was Fatima and she readily undertook the instruction of the foreign girl, who had come from so far off to see Mecca.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	undertook	undertake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	instruction	instruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	off	off	ADV	RB	_	20	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
27	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 maiden's name | Fatima |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **undertake** | past | Fatima | the instruction of the foreign girl |  |  |  | readily *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come** | past · perfect | the foreign girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from off=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | the foreign girl *not said here* | Mecca |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mecca=Stimulus |
| 5 | **name** |  | the maiden |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **instruct** |  |  | the foreign girl |  |  |  |  | nom instruction «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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