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title: The Tomb of Diwan Shurfa Khan, the minister of one of these governor… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tomb of Diwan Shurfa Khan, the minister of one of these governors, Amirkhan by name, is one of the best preserved on Makli Hill. Who acts: 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 91

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The Tomb of Diwan Shurfa Khan, the minister of one of these governors, Amirkhan by name, is one of the best preserved on Makli Hill.

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**Who acts:** Tomb · **What happens:** be, preserve · **To what, where:** one, Makli Hill

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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 (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:pg76982:13:91
# text = The Tomb of Diwan Shurfa Khan, the minister of one of these governors, Amirkhan by name, is one of the best preserved on Makli Hill.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tomb	Tomb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Diwan	Diwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Shurfa	Shurfa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	governors	governor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Amirkhan	Amirkhan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	nmod	_	_
25	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Makli	Makli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Tomb of Diwan Shurfa and Amirkhan by name | one |  |  |  | of the best | tree rules |
| 2 | **preserve** | participle |  |  |  | Makli Hill |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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