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title: It was in Mirza Isa’s time that the Portuguese sacked Tatta. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: It was in Mirza Isa’s time that the Portuguese sacked Tatta. Who acts: place, Portuguese. 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 51

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It was in Mirza Isa’s time that the Portuguese sacked Tatta.

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**Who acts:** place, Portuguese · **What happens:** be, sack · **To what, where:** Tatta

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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 (place, Portuguese), 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:pg76982:13:51
# text = It was in Mirza Isa’s time that the Portuguese sacked Tatta.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	Mirza	Mirza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Isa	Isa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sacked	sack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	Tatta	Tatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | place |  |  |  | in Mirza Isa's time | Mirza Isa *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sack** | past | the Portuguese | Tatta |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tatta=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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