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title: But the religious call was too insistent and with three friends, She… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But the religious call was too insistent and with three friends, Sheikh Bahawaldin, Sheikh Farid Ganj Shakar and Makhdum Jalaluddin, Lal Shahbaz set off for the Persian Gulf. Who acts: religious call, Sheikh Bahawaldin. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, A Sind Saint., 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 18

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But the religious call was too insistent and with three friends, Sheikh Bahawaldin, Sheikh Farid Ganj Shakar and Makhdum Jalaluddin, Lal Shahbaz set off for the Persian Gulf.

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**Who acts:** religious call, Sheikh Bahawaldin · **What happens:** be, set off · **To what, where:** three friends

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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 (religious call, Sheikh Bahawaldin), 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:pg76982:7:18
# text = But the religious call was too insistent and with three friends, Sheikh Bahawaldin, Sheikh Farid Ganj Shakar and Makhdum Jalaluddin, Lal Shahbaz set off for the Persian Gulf.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	insistent	insistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Sheikh	Sheikh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Bahawaldin	Bahawaldin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Sheikh	Sheikh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Farid	Farid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	Ganj	Ganj	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	Shakar	Shakar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Makhdum	Makhdum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
22	Jalaluddin	Jalaluddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
25	Shahbaz	Shahbaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the religious call |  |  |  |  | three friends *conj*; insistent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **set off** | past | Sheikh Bahawaldin and Sheikh Farid and Makhdum and Lal | three friends *not said here* |  |  |  | for the Persian Gulf | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition friend=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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