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title: At once the old fakir recognised the passer-by from the radiant glow… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: At once the old fakir recognised the passer-by from the radiant glow on his countenance. Who acts: old fakir. 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 5

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At once the old fakir recognised the passer-by from the radiant glow on his countenance.

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**Who acts:** old fakir · **What happens:** recognise · **To what, where:** radiant glow, countenance

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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 (old fakir), 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:pg76982:10:5
# text = At once the old fakir recognised the passer-by from the radiant glow on his countenance.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fakir	fakir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
8	passer	passer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	radiant	radiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognise** | past | the old fakir | the radiant glow  passer |  | fakir's countenance |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glow=Stimulus |

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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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