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title: The beautifully coloured and perfectly glazed tiles and pottery of H… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The beautifully coloured and perfectly glazed tiles and pottery of Hala bear testimony to an art lost to the present generation of Sindhis; whilst the ornamented graves and temples which can still be seen in many parts of the Province, reveal the existence in the past of a God-fearing people with we
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 24

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The beautifully coloured and perfectly glazed tiles and pottery of Hala bear testimony to an art lost to the present generation of Sindhis; whilst the ornamented graves and temples which can still be seen in many parts of the Province, reveal the existence in the past of a God-fearing people with well developed notions of sculpture and architecture.

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**Who acts:** tiles, God · **What happens:** glaze, bear, lose, ornament, see, reveal · **To what, where:** testimony, art, ornamented graves, many parts, existence, past

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author’s Preface.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiles, God), 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:pg76982:2:24
# text = The beautifully coloured and perfectly glazed tiles and pottery of Hala bear testimony to an art lost to the present generation of Sindhis; whilst the ornamented graves and temples which can still be seen in many parts of the Province, reveal the existence in the past of a God-fearing people with well developed notions of sculpture and architecture.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	glazed	glaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	tiles	tile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pottery	pottery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Hala	Hala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	bear	bear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
13	testimony	testimony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Sindhis	Sindhis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	ornamented	ornament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	still	still	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Province	Province	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	reveal	reveal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	acl	_	_
54	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obj	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	57	advmod	_	_
57	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	amod	_	_
58	notions	notion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nmod	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	sculpture	sculpture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	architecture	architecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glaze** | past |  |  |  |  |  | whilst the ornamented graves and temples; perfectly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | present | tiles and pottery of Hala | testimony |  |  |  | to a art | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent testimony=Patient |
| 3 | **lose** | participle |  | a art *not said here* |  |  | to the present generation of Sindhis |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ornament** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **see** | can · passive |  | the ornamented graves and temples |  | many parts of the Province | still |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 6 | **reveal** | infinitive |  | the existence |  | the past of a God |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent existence=Topic |
| 7 | **fear** | gerund | a God *not said here* | people |  |  |  | with developed notions of sculpture and architecture | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
| 8 | **develop** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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