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title: When Lal Shahbaz reached manhood, he insisted on leaving his father’… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: When Lal Shahbaz reached manhood, he insisted on leaving his father’s house and started on a pilgrimage. Who acts: Lal, Hazrat. 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 15

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When Lal Shahbaz reached manhood, he insisted on leaving his father’s house and started on a pilgrimage.

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**Who acts:** Lal, Hazrat · **What happens:** reach, insist, leave, start · **To what, where:** manhood, house, pilgrimage

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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 (Lal, Hazrat), 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:pg76982:7:15
# text = When Lal Shahbaz reached manhood, he insisted on leaving his father’s house and started on a pilgrimage.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Shahbaz	Shahbaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	manhood	manhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	insisted	insist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | Lal | manhood |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent manhood=Theme |
| 2 | **insist** *speech: other* | past | Hazrat |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | Hazrat *not said here* | Hazrat's father's house |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 4 | **start** | past | Hazrat *not said here* |  |  | a pilgrimage |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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