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title: The second difficulty he met by cutting Akbar’s first garment out of… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The second difficulty he met by cutting Akbar’s first garment out of the coat of Sayad Ali Shirazi, who had been sent by the people of Tatta with gifts and greetings. Who acts: second difficulty, people. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill., with its depen
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 22

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The second difficulty he met by cutting Akbar’s first garment out of the coat of Sayad Ali Shirazi, who had been sent by the people of Tatta with gifts and greetings.

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**Who acts:** second difficulty, people · **What happens:** meet, cut, send · **To what, where:** first garment, coat, Sayad Ali

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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 (second difficulty, people), 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:pg76982:13:22
# text = The second difficulty he met by cutting Akbar’s first garment out of the coat of Sayad Ali Shirazi, who had been sent by the people of Tatta with gifts and greetings.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	Akbar	Akbar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Sayad	Sayad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	Shirazi	Shirazi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Tatta	Tatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	greetings	greeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **meet** | past | the second difficulty |  |  |  |  | difficulty *nsubj* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cut** | gerund | the second difficulty *not said here* | Akbar's first garment |  | the coat of Sayad Ali |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset garment=Product |
| 3 | **send** | past · perfect · passive | the people of Tatta | Sayad Ali |  |  |  | with gifts and greetings | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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