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title: After two or three months had passed, Chota Amrani told Fatima that… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: After two or three months had passed, Chota Amrani told Fatima that he must take her back with him to Sind. 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 177

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After two or three months had passed, Chota Amrani told Fatima that he must take her back with him to Sind.

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**Who acts:** Chota · **What happens:** pass, tell, take back, sind · **To what, where:** two months, Fatima · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg76982:10:177
# text = After two or three months had passed, Chota Amrani told Fatima that he must take her back with him to Sind.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Chota	Chota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Amrani	Amrani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	iobj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	Sind	sind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive |  | two months |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Chota |  | Fatima |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent fatima=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take back** *not said to happen* | must | Chota |  | Fatima |  |  | with request | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
| 4 | **sind** | to-infinitive | Chota *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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