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title: He called to his aid another holy man Ali Shirazi and they assailed… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He called to his aid another holy man Ali Shirazi and they assailed Allah with continuous and soul-compelling prayers. Who acts: Tatta, Ali. 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 cl
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 44

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He called to his aid another holy man Ali Shirazi and they assailed Allah with continuous and soul-compelling prayers.

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**Who acts:** Tatta, Ali · **What happens:** call, assail · **To what, where:** aid, Allah · **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 (Tatta, Ali), 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:pg76982:10:44
# text = He called to his aid another holy man Ali Shirazi and they assailed Allah with continuous and soul-compelling prayers.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	Shirazi	Shirazi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	assailed	assail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	Allah	Allah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	continuous	continuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	compelling	compelling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
21	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Tatta |  | Tatta's aid  Ali  another holy man |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to aid=Recipient |
| 2 | **assail** | past | Ali | Allah |  |  |  | with continuous prayers | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent allah=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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