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title: He went to Multan and asked Sheikh Bahawaldin’s son, Sadaruddin for… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He went to Multan and asked Sheikh Bahawaldin’s son, Sadaruddin for his betrothed. 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 73

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He went to Multan and asked Sheikh Bahawaldin’s son, Sadaruddin for his betrothed.

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**Who acts:** Sehwan · **What happens:** go, ask, betroth · **To what, where:** Multan, son

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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:pg76982:7:73
# text = He went to Multan and asked Sheikh Bahawaldin’s son, Sadaruddin for his betrothed.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Multan	Multan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	Sheikh	Sheikh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Bahawaldin	Bahawaldin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Sadaruddin	Sadaruddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	betrothed	betroth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Sehwan |  |  | Multan |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to multan=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Sehwan *not said here* |  | Sheikh Bahawaldin's son |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient |
| 3 | **betroth** | participle | Sehwan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Sehwan *nmod:poss* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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