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title: Fatima, who was skilled in astrology as well as in matters religious… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Fatima, who was skilled in astrology as well as in matters religious, answered the questions with ease. Who acts: Fatima. 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 165

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Fatima, who was skilled in astrology as well as in matters religious, answered the questions with ease.

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**Who acts:** Fatima · **What happens:** skill, answer · **To what, where:** Fatima, astrology, questions

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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 (Fatima), 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:pg76982:10:165
# text = Fatima, who was skilled in astrology as well as in matters religious, answered the questions with ease.
1	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	skilled	skill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	astrology	astrology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	5	advmod	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	fixed	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skill** | past · passive |  | Fatima |  | astrology |  | in matters | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Fatima | the questions |  |  |  | with ease | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality |

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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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