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title: Whenever he did so, a lovely maiden of the tribe had given him alms… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Whenever he did so, a lovely maiden of the tribe had given him alms and as she gave them, she repeated these words “Jhal fakir, Hal fakir.” Who acts: fakir, fate. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 118

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Whenever he did so, a lovely maiden of the tribe had given him alms and as she gave them, she repeated these words “Jhal fakir, Hal fakir.”

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**Who acts:** fakir, fate · **What happens:** do, give, repeat · **To what, where:** lovely maiden, fakir, alms, words

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fakir, fate), 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:pg76982:9:118
# text = Whenever he did so, a lovely maiden of the tribe had given him alms and as she gave them, she repeated these words “Jhal fakir, Hal fakir.”
1	Whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	alms	alm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Jhal	Jhal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	fakir	fakir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	Hal	hal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	fakir	fakir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | fakir |  |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | a lovely maiden of the tribe | fakir |  |  | alms *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past | fate |  | alms *= alm* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **repeat** | past | fate | this words |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |

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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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