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title: At last Lal Shahbaz realised that the island fakir had cast a spell… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: At last Lal Shahbaz realised that the island fakir had cast a spell on them. Who acts: Shahbaz. 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 24

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At last Lal Shahbaz realised that the island fakir had cast a spell on them.

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**Who acts:** Shahbaz · **What happens:** realise, cast · **To what, where:** last Lal, island fakir · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Shahbaz), 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:pg76982:7:24
# text = At last Lal Shahbaz realised that the island fakir had cast a spell on them.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Shahbaz	Shahbaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	realised	realise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fakir	fakir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **realise** | past | Shahbaz |  |  | last Lal |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cast** | past · perfect · passive |  | the island fakir |  |  |  | on Lal; a spell *obj* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary spell=Product |

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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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