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title: Another time Abdul Latif went to Kotri and there exposed the impostu… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Another time Abdul Latif went to Kotri and there exposed the impostures of the Mullas who surrounded the governor Lalla Beg. Who acts: Abdul. 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 140

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Another time Abdul Latif went to Kotri and there exposed the impostures of the Mullas who surrounded the governor Lalla Beg.

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**Who acts:** Abdul · **What happens:** go, expose, surround · **To what, where:** Kotri, impostures, Mullas

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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 (Abdul), 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:pg76982:9:140
# text = Another time Abdul Latif went to Kotri and there exposed the impostures of the Mullas who surrounded the governor Lalla Beg.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Abdul	Abdul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Latif	Latif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Kotri	Kotri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	exposed	expose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	impostures	imposture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Mullas	mulla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	Lalla	Lalla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
21	Beg	Beg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Abdul |  |  | Kotri | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to kotri=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **expose** | past | Abdul *not said here* | the impostures of the Mullas |  | there |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot imposture=Topic |
| 3 | **surround** | participle · passive |  | the Mullas |  |  |  | the governor *obj* | tree rules |

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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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