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title: A Jot or lamp that gave to him who looked into its flame a vision of… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: A Jot or lamp that gave to him who looked into its flame a vision of the Most High. Who acts: Jot, lamp. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Udero Lal., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 88

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A Jot or lamp that gave to him who looked into its flame a vision of the Most High.

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**Who acts:** Jot, lamp · **What happens:** give, look, flame · **To what, where:** Udero, vision, flame

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Udero Lal.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jot, lamp), 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:pg76982:8:88
# text = A Jot or lamp that gave to him who looked into its flame a vision of the Most High.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Jot	jot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | a Jot or lamp |  | Udero |  |  | that *nsubj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **look** | past |  | a vision of the Most High |  | lamp's flame |  | who *nsubj* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vision=Attribute |
| 3 | **flame** |  | lamp |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: poss=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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