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title: Shortly afterwards the poor girl died and Lal Shahbaz returned to Se… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Shortly afterwards the poor girl died and Lal Shahbaz returned to Sehwan. Who acts: poor girl, Lal. 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 76

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Shortly afterwards the poor girl died and Lal Shahbaz returned to Sehwan.

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**Who acts:** poor girl, Lal · **What happens:** die, return · **To what, where:** Sehwan

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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 (poor girl, Lal), 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:pg76982:7:76
# text = Shortly afterwards the poor girl died and Lal Shahbaz returned to Sehwan.
1	Shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Shahbaz	Shahbaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Sehwan	Sehwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | the poor girl |  |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **return** | past | Lal |  | Sehwan |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to sehwan=Result |

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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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