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title: It is about certain leaders—religious and political—of these peoples… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: It is about certain leaders—religious and political—of these peoples of the bygone centuries that the Hon. Who acts: life. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author’s Preface., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 26

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It is about certain leaders—religious and political—of these peoples of the bygone centuries that the Hon.

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**Who acts:** life · **What happens:** be

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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 (life), 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:pg76982:2:26
# text = It is about certain leaders—religious and political—of these peoples of the bygone centuries that the Hon.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	bygone	bygone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Hon	Hon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | life |  |  |  |  | about certain leaders and this peoples of the bygone centuries  the Hon; this peoples of the bygone centuries  the Hon *conj* | 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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