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title: But it is not possible to say with certainty which his tomb is! — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But it is not possible to say with certainty which his tomb is! Who acts: it, tomb. 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 40

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But it is not possible to say with certainty which his tomb is!

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**Who acts:** it, tomb · **What happens:** not be, say, be · **To what, where:** certainty · **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 (it, tomb), 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:pg76982:13:40
# text = But it is not possible to say with certainty which his tomb is!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	certainty	certainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with certainty | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with certainty=Manner |
| 3 | **be** | present | Chief's tomb | certainty |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=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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