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title: The saint asked the reason and was told that he would be the father… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The saint asked the reason and was told that he would be the father of a son who would love to shoot birds. Who acts: saint, son. 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 8

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The saint asked the reason and was told that he would be the father of a son who would love to shoot birds.

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**Who acts:** saint, son · **What happens:** ask, tell, be, love, shoot · **To what, where:** reason, father, birds · **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 (saint, son), 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:pg76982:10:8
# text = The saint asked the reason and was told that he would be the father of a son who would love to shoot birds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the saint | the reason |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reason=Recipient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | the saint *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **is a** *not said to happen* | would | saint | the father |  |  |  | of a son | tree rules |
| 4 | **love** | would | a son |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **shoot** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a son *not said here* | birds |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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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