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title: Sehwan was, however, already a holy town and its worldly minded faki… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Sehwan was, however, already a holy town and its worldly minded fakirs dreaded that the advent of so famous a mendicant would reduce their earnings. Who acts: Sehwan, worldly minded fakirs, advent. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, A Sind Saint., with its dependency tr
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 65

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Sehwan was, however, already a holy town and its worldly minded fakirs dreaded that the advent of so famous a mendicant would reduce their earnings.

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**Who acts:** Sehwan, worldly minded fakirs, advent · **What happens:** be, dread, reduce · **To what, where:** holy town, earnings

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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, worldly minded fakirs, advent), 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:pg76982:7:65
# text = Sehwan was, however, already a holy town and its worldly minded fakirs dreaded that the advent of so famous a mendicant would reduce their earnings.
1	Sehwan	Sehwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	already	already	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	worldly	worldly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	minded	minded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fakirs	fakir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	dreaded	dread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	advent	advent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mendicant	mendicant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	reduce	reduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	earnings	earning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Sehwan | a holy town |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dread** | past | town's worldly minded fakirs |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **reduce** | would | the advent of a famous mendicant | miles's earnings |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer earning=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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