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title: “When both Sehwan and Sibi grill so well What good was there, O Lord… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: “When both Sehwan and Sibi grill so well What good was there, O Lord, in making Hell?” Who acts: Sehwan. 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 5

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“When both Sehwan and Sibi grill so well What good was there, O Lord, in making Hell?”

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**Who acts:** Sehwan · **What happens:** grill, be, make · **To what, where:** Lord, Hell

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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 (Sehwan), 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:pg76982:7:5
# text = “When both Sehwan and Sibi grill so well What good was there, O Lord, in making Hell?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	Sehwan	Sehwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Sibi	Sibi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	grill	grill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
10	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
20	Hell	Hell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grill** *in a quote* | present | both Sehwan and Sibi | Lord |  |  |  | What *obj*; well *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | gerund |  | Hell |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hell=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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