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title: Who can regard the wonderful tombs on the Makli Hill at Tatta or the… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Who can regard the wonderful tombs on the Makli Hill at Tatta or the ruins of the great city of Brahmanabad without realising that those responsible for these things must have been, in their day, well advanced in social and civilised life, and deserving of the respect of the present generation. A se
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 25

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Who can regard the wonderful tombs on the Makli Hill at Tatta or the ruins of the great city of Brahmanabad without realising that those responsible for these things must have been, in their day, well advanced in social and civilised life, and deserving of the respect of the present generation.

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**What happens:** regard, realise, be, advance, civilise, deserve · **To what, where:** wonderful tombs, Makli Hill, social, life, great city, present generation

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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: 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:pg76982:2:25
# text = Who can regard the wonderful tombs on the Makli Hill at Tatta or the ruins of the great city of Brahmanabad without realising that those responsible for these things must have been, in their day, well advanced in social and civilised life, and deserving of the respect of the present generation.
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	regard	regard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tombs	tomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Makli	Makli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Tatta	Tatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Brahmanabad	Brahmanabad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	realising	realise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	ccomp	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	39	discourse	_	_
39	advanced	advance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	civilised	civilise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	conj	_	_
44	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	deserving	deserve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regard** | can |  | the wonderful tombs |  | the Makli Hill at Tatta or the ruins of the great city of Brahmanabad |  | Who *nsubj* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Theme |
| 2 | **realise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | must · perfect |  |  |  |  | in things's day | things *= thing* *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **advance** | participle |  |  |  | social |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **civilise** | participle |  | life |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **deserve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of the respect of the present generation | tree rules |
| 7 | **ruin** |  |  | the great city of Brahmanabad |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **respect** |  |  | the present generation |  |  |  |  | nom respect «cognition 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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