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title: Your city will be destroyed and you will perish with it so suddenly,… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Your city will be destroyed and you will perish with it so suddenly, that you will not have time to give even a handful of grain in charity!” Who acts: you. 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 pragma
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 252

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Your city will be destroyed and you will perish with it so suddenly, that you will not have time to give even a handful of grain in charity!”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** destroy, perish, not have, give · **To what, where:** city, handful, charity

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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 (you), 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:pg76982:10:252
# text = Your city will be destroyed and you will perish with it so suddenly, that you will not have time to give even a handful of grain in charity!”
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | future · passive |  | Your city |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **perish** | future | you |  |  |  |  | with city; suddenly *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **have** | future | you |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a handful of grain |  | charity |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme |

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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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