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title: Not long afterwards Lal Shahbaz learnt in a trance of the death of h… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Not long afterwards Lal Shahbaz learnt in a trance of the death of his prospective father-in-law. Who acts: Lal, prospective father. 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 72

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Not long afterwards Lal Shahbaz learnt in a trance of the death of his prospective father-in-law.

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**Who acts:** Lal, prospective father · **What happens:** learn, trance, die · **To what, where:** trance, death

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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 (Lal, prospective father), 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:pg76982:7:72
# text = Not long afterwards Lal Shahbaz learnt in a trance of the death of his prospective father-in-law.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Shahbaz	Shahbaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	learnt	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	trance	trance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	prospective	prospective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | Lal |  |  | a trance of the death of Sehwan's prospective father in law |  | afterwards *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **trance** |  |  | the death of Sehwan's prospective father in law |  |  |  |  | nom trance «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **die** |  | Sehwan's prospective father in law |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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