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title: But efficacious as his spiritual aid may have been in procuring sons… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But efficacious as his spiritual aid may have been in procuring sons for barren women, poor Ghazi remained childless himself. Who acts: spiritual aid, efficacious. 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 c
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 88

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But efficacious as his spiritual aid may have been in procuring sons for barren women, poor Ghazi remained childless himself.

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**Who acts:** spiritual aid, efficacious · **What happens:** procure, remain · **To what, where:** sons

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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 (spiritual aid, efficacious), 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:pg76982:13:88
# text = But efficacious as his spiritual aid may have been in procuring sons for barren women, poor Ghazi remained childless himself.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	efficacious	efficacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	procuring	procure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	barren	barren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Ghazi	Ghazi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	childless	childless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **procure** | may · perfect · progressive | father's spiritual aid | sons |  |  |  | for barren women  poor Ghazi | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent son=Theme for woman=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **remain** | past | efficacious |  |  |  |  | childless *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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