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title: Inside the walls were rich houses, countless gardens, and a mighty t… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Inside the walls were rich houses, countless gardens, and a mighty tower, that served as a landmark for miles around. Who acts: mighty tower. 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 c
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 199

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Inside the walls were rich houses, countless gardens, and a mighty tower, that served as a landmark for miles around.

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**Who acts:** mighty tower · **What happens:** be, serve · **To what, where:** rich houses, walls

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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 (mighty tower), 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:pg76982:10:199
# text = Inside the walls were rich houses, countless gardens, and a mighty tower, that served as a landmark for miles around.
1	Inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	countless	countless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	landmark	landmark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	around	around	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	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 |  | rich houses and countless gardens |  | the walls |  | countless gardens *conj*; a mighty tower *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | past | a mighty tower |  |  |  |  | as a landmark; for miles; around *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as landmark=Attribute |

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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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