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title: They did so and the stream at Zinda Pir’s command, changed its cours… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: They did so and the stream at Zinda Pir’s command, changed its course and leaving Alor, brought the boat and its burden to Rohri. Who acts: Hussain, stream, Zinda. 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 15

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They did so and the stream at Zinda Pir’s command, changed its course and leaving Alor, brought the boat and its burden to Rohri.

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**Who acts:** Hussain, stream, Zinda · **What happens:** do, change, leave, bring, command, burden · **To what, where:** course, Alor, boat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Hussain, stream, Zinda), 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:pg76982:9:15
# text = They did so and the stream at Zinda Pir’s command, changed its course and leaving Alor, brought the boat and its burden to Rohri.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Zinda	Zinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Pir	Pir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
11	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
18	Alor	Alor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Rohri	Rohri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Hussain |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **change** | past | the stream at Zinda's command | stream's course |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | the stream at Zinda's command *not said here* | Alor |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alor=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | past | Hussain *not said here* | the boat and stream's burden to Rohri |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
| 5 | **command** |  | Zinda |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **burden** |  | stream |  |  |  |  | to Rohri | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent to=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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