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title: The farthest to the north is a brick tomb on a masonry plinth, plast… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The farthest to the north is a brick tomb on a masonry plinth, plastered and white-washed. 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 11

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The farthest to the north is a brick tomb on a masonry plinth, plastered and white-washed.

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**What happens:** be, plaster, wash · **To what, where:** brick tomb, masonry plinth

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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: 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:pg76982:13:11
# text = The farthest to the north is a brick tomb on a masonry plinth, plastered and white-washed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farthest	far	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	masonry	masonry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	plinth	plinth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	plastered	plaster	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a brick tomb |  | a masonry plinth |  | the farthest to the north *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **plaster** | participle |  | a masonry plinth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **wash** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «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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