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title: Searching amongst the ruins of northern Sind, Mr. Rakhaldas Bannerji… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Searching amongst the ruins of northern Sind, Mr. Rakhaldas Bannerji has discovered at Mohenjo Daro in the Larkana District buildings and domestic articles that seem to indicate the existence in Sind of an advanced civilisation some thousands of years ago! Who acts: Searching, District buildings. A 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 33

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Searching amongst the ruins of northern Sind, Mr. Rakhaldas Bannerji has discovered at Mohenjo Daro in the Larkana District buildings and domestic articles that seem to indicate the existence in Sind of an advanced civilisation some thousands of years ago!

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**Who acts:** Searching, District buildings · **What happens:** search, discover, seem, indicate, ruin · **To what, where:** ruins, Mohenjo Daro, existence, Sind, northern Sind

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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 (Searching, District buildings), 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:pg76982:2:33
# text = Searching amongst the ruins of northern Sind, Mr. Rakhaldas Bannerji has discovered at Mohenjo Daro in the Larkana District buildings and domestic articles that seem to indicate the existence in Sind of an advanced civilisation some thousands of years ago!
1	Searching	search	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj:pass	_	_
2	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Sind	Sind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Rakhaldas	Rakhaldas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	Bannerji	Bannerji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Mohenjo	Mohenjo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Daro	Daro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Larkana	Larkana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	District	District	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	articles	article	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	indicate	indicate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Sind	Sind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	advanced	advanced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	civilisation	civilisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
37	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
38	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl:unmarked	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
41	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** | gerund |  |  |  | the ruins of northern Sind and Rakhaldas  Mr. |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent amongst ruin=Location |
| 2 | **discover** | present · perfect | Searching |  |  | Mohenjo Daro |  | in the District buildings and domestic articles | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seem** | present | the District buildings and domestic articles |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **indicate** | to-infinitive | the District buildings and domestic articles *not said here* | the existence |  | Sind of a advanced civilisation |  | ago *property* | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot existence=Topic |
| 5 | **ruin** |  |  | northern Sind and Rakhaldas  Mr. |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state 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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