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title: Sehwan is known to Englishmen chiefly as a handy station for those w… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Sehwan is known to Englishmen chiefly as a handy station for those who wish to shoot on the Manchar lake. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, A Sind Saint., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 1

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Sehwan is known to Englishmen chiefly as a handy station for those who wish to shoot on the Manchar lake.

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**What happens:** know, wish, shoot · **To what, where:** Sehwan, Englishmen, Manchar lake

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, A Sind Saint.. 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:pg76982:7:1
# text = Sehwan is known to Englishmen chiefly as a handy station for those who wish to shoot on the Manchar lake.
1	Sehwan	Sehwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Englishmen	Englishman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	handy	handy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Manchar	Manchar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · passive |  | Sehwan | Englishmen |  |  | as a handy station; for those; chiefly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as station=Attribute |
| 2 | **wish** | present |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **shoot** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the Manchar lake |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on lake=Destination |

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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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