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title: It was this way: A certain Murshid once challenged Shahbaz’s friends… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: It was this way: A certain Murshid once challenged Shahbaz’s friends to bathe in a caldron of boiling oil. Who acts: title, certain Murshid. 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 53

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It was this way: A certain Murshid once challenged Shahbaz’s friends to bathe in a caldron of boiling oil.

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**Who acts:** title, certain Murshid · **What happens:** be, challenge, bathe · **To what, where:** way, 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 (title, certain Murshid), 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:pg76982:7:53
# text = It was this way: A certain Murshid once challenged Shahbaz’s friends to bathe in a caldron of boiling oil.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Murshid	Murshid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
10	challenged	challenge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	Shahbaz	Shahbaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	caldron	caldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | title | this way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **challenge** | past | a certain Murshid | Shahbaz's friends |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bathe** | to-infinitive | a certain Murshid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in a caldron of boiling oil | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in caldron=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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