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title: He chose a site to the east of the Makli Hill and on a day picked ou… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He chose a site to the east of the Makli Hill and on a day picked out by the Brahmans, he founded his city, Tatta. Who acts: happiness. 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 36

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He chose a site to the east of the Makli Hill and on a day picked out by the Brahmans, he founded his city, Tatta.

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**Who acts:** happiness · **What happens:** choose, pick out, found · **To what, where:** site, day, city

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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 (happiness), 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:pg76982:13:36
# text = He chose a site to the east of the Makli Hill and on a day picked out by the Brahmans, he founded his city, Tatta.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Makli	Makli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Brahmans	Brahman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Tatta	Tatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | happiness | a site |  |  |  | to the east of the Makli Hill and a day | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent site=Theme |
| 2 | **pick out** | participle |  | a day *not said here* |  |  |  | the Brahmans *obl:agent* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **found** | past | happiness | happiness's city |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient |

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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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