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title: Near the small town of Naushahro in the district of Nawabshah, there… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Near the small town of Naushahro in the district of Nawabshah, there is an old fort called Murad jo Killo or Murad’s Fort. Who acts: old fort. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 1

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Near the small town of Naushahro in the district of Nawabshah, there is an old fort called Murad jo Killo or Murad’s Fort.

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**Who acts:** old fort · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** small town, old fort · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old fort), 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:pg76982:12:1
# text = Near the small town of Naushahro in the district of Nawabshah, there is an old fort called Murad jo Killo or Murad’s Fort.
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Naushahro	Naushahro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Nawabshah	Nawabshah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fort	fort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	Murad	Murad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
20	jo	jo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	Killo	Killo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Murad	Murad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
25	Fort	Fort	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a old fort |  |  | the small town of Naushahro in the district of Nawabshah; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near town=Location |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a old fort *not said here* |  |  |  | Murad or Murad's Fort *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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