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title: No boats were available so Lal Shahbaz threw his “kishta” or begging… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: No boats were available so Lal Shahbaz threw his “kishta” or begging bowl into the water and it became a boat. Who acts: boats, Lal, bowl. 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 21

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No boats were available so Lal Shahbaz threw his “kishta” or begging bowl into the water and it became a boat.

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**Who acts:** boats, Lal, bowl · **What happens:** be, throw, beg, become · **To what, where:** kishta, water, boat

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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 (boats, Lal, bowl), 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:pg76982:7:21
# text = No boats were available so Lal Shahbaz threw his “kishta” or begging bowl into the water and it became a boat.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	available	available	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Shahbaz	Shahbaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	kishta	kishta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
15	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | no boats |  |  |  |  | available *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw** | past | Lal | Jalal's kishta |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kishta=Theme |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | bowl |  |  | the water |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **become** | past | bowl | a boat |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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