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title: As they drew near the island, Lal Shahbaz saw Sheikh Jalal looking a… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: As they drew near the island, Lal Shahbaz saw Sheikh Jalal looking at them through a window of his castle. Who acts: boats, Lal, Sheikh. 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 32

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As they drew near the island, Lal Shahbaz saw Sheikh Jalal looking at them through a window of his castle.

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**Who acts:** boats, Lal, Sheikh · **What happens:** draw, see, look · **To what, where:** island, Sheikh, window

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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, Sheikh), 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:pg76982:7:32
# text = As they drew near the island, Lal Shahbaz saw Sheikh Jalal looking at them through a window of his castle.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Shahbaz	Shahbaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Sheikh	Sheikh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	Jalal	Jalal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | boats *= boat* |  |  | the island |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past | Lal | Sheikh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | Sheikh *not said here* |  |  | a window of Sheikh's castle |  | at boats *= boat* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |

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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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