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title: Both father and son were renowned as poets and musicians and childle… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Both father and son were renowned as poets and musicians and childless couples who desired off-spring, used to visit their tomb and try and win the favour of their spirits by songs and instruments. Who acts: childless couples. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makl
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 87

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Both father and son were renowned as poets and musicians and childless couples who desired off-spring, used to visit their tomb and try and win the favour of their spirits by songs and instruments.

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**Who acts:** childless couples · **What happens:** renown, desire, use, visit, try, win · **To what, where:** father, tomb, favour, spirits

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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 (childless couples), 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:pg76982:13:87
# text = Both father and son were renowned as poets and musicians and childless couples who desired off-spring, used to visit their tomb and try and win the favour of their spirits by songs and instruments.
1	Both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc:preconj	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	renowned	renown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	musicians	musician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	childless	childless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	couples	couple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **renown** | past · passive |  | father and son |  |  |  | as poets and musicians and childless couples | tree rules |
| 2 | **desire** | past | childless couples |  |  |  | spring |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **use** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **visit** | to-infinitive |  | couples's tomb |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **try** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **win** | infinitive |  | the favour of tombs's spirits |  |  |  | by songs and instruments | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Eventuality |
| 7 | **favour** |  |  | tombs's spirits |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=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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