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title: His first and perhaps greatest—certainly his most useful—miracle was… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: His first and perhaps greatest—certainly his most useful—miracle was the digging of the Ghar canal that runs past Larkana town. Who acts: miracle, Ghar canal. 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 114

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His first and perhaps greatest—certainly his most useful—miracle was the digging of the Ghar canal that runs past Larkana town.

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**Who acts:** miracle, Ghar canal · **What happens:** be, run · **To what, where:** digging, Larkana town

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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 (miracle, Ghar canal), 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:pg76982:13:114
# text = His first and perhaps greatest—certainly his most useful—miracle was the digging of the Ghar canal that runs past Larkana town.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	miracle	miracle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	digging	digging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Ghar	Ghar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	past	past	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Larkana	Larkana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | miracle | the digging |  |  |  | of the Ghar canal; Adam's first greatest *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | present | the Ghar canal |  |  | Larkana town |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past town=Trajectory |

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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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