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title: Giving up the things of this world, he became an anchorite and taugh… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Giving up the things of this world, he became an anchorite and taught the precepts of Islam until death overtook him. Who acts: love, death. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 54

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Giving up the things of this world, he became an anchorite and taught the precepts of Islam until death overtook him.

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**Who acts:** love, death · **What happens:** give up, become, teach, overtake · **To what, where:** things, anchorite, precepts, love

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love, death), 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:pg76982:14:54
# text = Giving up the things of this world, he became an anchorite and taught the precepts of Islam until death overtook him.
1	Giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	anchorite	anchorite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	precepts	precept	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	overtook	overtake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | gerund | love *not said here* | the things of this world |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Source |
| 2 | **become** | past | love | a anchorite |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | love *not said here* | the precepts of Islam |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent precept=Recipient |
| 4 | **overtake** | past | death | love |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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