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title: Abdul Latif, before he started on his wanderings, had, because of hi… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Abdul Latif, before he started on his wanderings, had, because of his unsatisfied love for the Moghul girl, cursed the whole tribe of the Moghuls, who then lived in Sind. Who acts: Abdul, Moghuls. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir., with its dependency tree a
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 145

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Abdul Latif, before he started on his wanderings, had, because of his unsatisfied love for the Moghul girl, cursed the whole tribe of the Moghuls, who then lived in Sind.

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**Who acts:** Abdul, Moghuls · **What happens:** start, have, curse, live, wander, love · **To what, where:** wanderings, whole tribe, Sind

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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, Moghuls), 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:pg76982:9:145
# text = Abdul Latif, before he started on his wanderings, had, because of his unsatisfied love for the Moghul girl, cursed the whole tribe of the Moghuls, who then lived in Sind.
1	Abdul	Abdul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Latif	Latif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	unsatisfied	unsatisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Moghul	Moghul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Moghuls	Moghul	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
32	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
33	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Sind	Sind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | Abdul |  |  | ABDUL's wanderings |  | ABDUL *nsubj* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | past | Abdul *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ABDUL's unsatisfied love for the Moghul girl *parataxis* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **curse** | participle |  | the whole tribe of the Moghuls |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribe=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | past | the Moghuls |  |  | Sind | then |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sind=Location |
| 5 | **wander** |  | ABDUL |  |  |  |  |  | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **love** |  | ABDUL |  |  |  |  | for the Moghul girl | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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