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title: Abdul Latif, or as we should now call him Latif Shah, did not settle… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Abdul Latif, or as we should now call him Latif Shah, did not settle down to enjoy his wedded happiness at Varsum, where Shah Habib had lived and where he himself had been born. Who acts: we, Abdul, Shah. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir., with its dependenc
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 152

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Abdul Latif, or as we should now call him Latif Shah, did not settle down to enjoy his wedded happiness at Varsum, where Shah Habib had lived and where he himself had been born.

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**Who acts:** we, Abdul, Shah · **What happens:** call, not settle down, enjoy, wed, live, bear · **To what, where:** ABDUL, wedded happiness, Varsum · **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 (we, Abdul, Shah), 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:pg76982:9:152
# text = Abdul Latif, or as we should now call him Latif Shah, did not settle down to enjoy his wedded happiness at Varsum, where Shah Habib had lived and where he himself had been born.
1	Abdul	Abdul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
2	Latif	Latif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	Latif	Latif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
12	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	wedded	wed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Varsum	Varsum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
27	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	Habib	Habib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	37	advmod	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	33	nmod:unmarked	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | should | we |  | ABDUL |  | now | Latif *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **settle down** | past · do-support | Abdul |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **enjoy** | to-infinitive | Abdul *not said here* | ABDUL's wedded happiness |  | Varsum |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer happiness=Stimulus |
| 4 | **wed** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **live** | past · perfect | Shah |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **bear** | past · perfect · passive |  | ABDUL |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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