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title: These the guardians of the shrine shew to wondering pilgrims as proo… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: These the guardians of the shrine shew to wondering pilgrims as proof positive of the legend’s truth. Who acts: guardians. 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 105

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These the guardians of the shrine shew to wondering pilgrims as proof positive of the legend’s truth.

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**Who acts:** guardians · **What happens:** shew, wonder · **To what, where:** pilgrims

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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: who acts (guardians), 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:pg76982:7:105
# text = These the guardians of the shrine shew to wondering pilgrims as proof positive of the legend’s truth.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	guardians	guardian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shrine	shrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	shew	shew	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	_
10	pilgrims	pilgrim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	proof	proof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	positive	positive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shew** | infinitive | this guardians |  |  |  |  | of the shrine | tree rules |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | this guardians *not said here* | pilgrims |  |  |  |  | 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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