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title: Whatever the true origin may be, let us take the tombs from north to… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Whatever the true origin may be, let us take the tombs from north to south and put down what we know about them. Who acts: true origin, you, us, we. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 10

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Whatever the true origin may be, let us take the tombs from north to south and put down what we know about them.

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**Who acts:** true origin, you, us, we · **What happens:** be, let, take, put down, know · **To what, where:** Whatever, us, tombs

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (true origin, you, us, we), 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:pg76982:13:10
# text = Whatever the true origin may be, let us take the tombs from north to south and put down what we know about them.
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tombs	tomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	north	north	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	south	south	ADV	RB	_	10	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | may | the true origin | Whatever |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | us *not said here* | the tombs |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent tomb=Theme from south=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **put down** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent what=Goal |
| 5 | **know** | present | we |  |  |  |  | about tombs *= tomb* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about they=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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