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title: Now in Sind marriageable girls are few and this was a home thrust. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Now in Sind marriageable girls are few and this was a home thrust. Who acts: this. 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 54

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Now in Sind marriageable girls are few and this was a home thrust.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** home thrust

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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 (this), 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:pg76982:10:54
# text = Now in Sind marriageable girls are few and this was a home thrust.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Sind	Sind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	marriageable	marriageable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | now | in Sind marriageable girls; few *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | this | a home thrust |  |  |  |  | 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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