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title: Their capital was Haidarabad but they always loved Larkana for the s… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Their capital was Haidarabad but they always loved Larkana for the sake of their ancestor; and the fame of its prosperity and wealth under the Kalhoros is still preserved in the well-known couplet Who acts: capital. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill., wi
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 144

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Their capital was Haidarabad but they always loved Larkana for the sake of their ancestor; and the fame of its prosperity and wealth under the Kalhoros is still preserved in the well-known couplet

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**Who acts:** capital · **What happens:** be, love, preserve, know · **To what, where:** Haidarabad, Larkana, fame, known couplet

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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 (capital), 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:pg76982:13:144
# text = Their capital was Haidarabad but they always loved Larkana for the sake of their ancestor; and the fame of its prosperity and wealth under the Kalhoros is still preserved in the well-known couplet
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Haidarabad	Haidarabad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Larkana	Larkana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	ancestor	ancestor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	under	under	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Kalhoros	Kalhoros	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
29	still	still	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
36	couplet	couplet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Haidarabad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **love** | past | descendants's capital | Larkana |  |  |  | for the sake of descendants's ancestor; descendants *= descendant* *nsubj*; always *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer larkana=Stimulus for sake=Attribute |
| 3 | **preserve** | present · passive |  | the fame of fame's prosperity under the Kalhoros and wealth |  | the known couplet | still |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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