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title: He told the latter the lying tale told by his subha Murad. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He told the latter the lying tale told by his subha Murad. Who acts: Nadir. 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 53

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He told the latter the lying tale told by his subha Murad.

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**Who acts:** Nadir · **What happens:** tell, lie · **To what, where:** lying tale · **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 (Nadir), 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:pg76982:12:53
# text = He told the latter the lying tale told by his subha Murad.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	subha	subha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl:agent	_	_
12	Murad	Murad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Nadir | the lying tale |  |  |  | latter *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the lying tale *not said here* |  |  |  | Nadir's subha *obl:agent* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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