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title: The first great Kalhoro was Adam Shah, who “drank the sherbet of mar… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The first great Kalhoro was Adam Shah, who “drank the sherbet of martyrdom at Multan” or in simpler language was killed in an obscure fight with the Moghul governor of that city. Who acts: Adam. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill., with its dependency tre
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 112

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The first great Kalhoro was Adam Shah, who “drank the sherbet of martyrdom at Multan” or in simpler language was killed in an obscure fight with the Moghul governor of that city.

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**Who acts:** Adam · **What happens:** be, drink, kill · **To what, where:** Adam, sherbet, simpler language, Multan, first great Kalhoro · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Adam), 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:pg76982:13:112
# text = The first great Kalhoro was Adam Shah, who “drank the sherbet of martyrdom at Multan” or in simpler language was killed in an obscure fight with the Moghul governor of that city.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Kalhoro	Kalhoro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Adam	Adam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sherbet	sherbet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	martyrdom	martyrdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Multan	Multan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	simpler	simple	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	obscure	obscure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Moghul	Moghul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Adam |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drink** *in a quote* | past | Adam | the sherbet of martyrdom |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sherbet=Patient |
| 3 | **kill** | past · passive |  | simpler language |  | Multan |  | in a obscure fight with the Moghul governor of that city | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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