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title: A fascinating vista of Sind, i.e., the land of the Indus, as the cra… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: A fascinating vista of Sind, i.e., the land of the Indus, as the cradle of modern Civilisation has been opened up, (for Sumerian culture was probably the source of Babylonian, Assyrian and Western Asiatic culture). A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author’s Preface., w
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 44

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A fascinating vista of Sind, i.e., the land of the Indus, as the cradle of modern Civilisation has been opened up, (for Sumerian culture was probably the source of Babylonian, Assyrian and Western Asiatic culture).

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**What happens:** open up, be · **To what, where:** fascinating vista, source

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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:pg76982:2:44
# text = A fascinating vista of Sind, i.e., the land of the Indus, as the cradle of modern Civilisation has been opened up, (for Sumerian culture was probably the source of Babylonian, Assyrian and Western Asiatic culture).
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fascinating	fascinating	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	vista	vista	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Sind	Sind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Indus	Indus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Civilisation	civilisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Sumerian	sumerian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Babylonian	Babylonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Assyrian	Assyrian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	Asiatic	asiatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open up** | present · perfect · passive |  | a fascinating vista of Sind and the land of the Indus and the cradle of modern Civilisation |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the source |  |  |  | for Sumerian culture; of Babylonian and Assyrian and Western Asiatic culture; probably *property* | 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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