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title: Nuh Halani’s spirit haunted Shah Latif night and day. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Nuh Halani’s spirit haunted Shah Latif night and day. Who acts: spirit. 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 155

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Nuh Halani’s spirit haunted Shah Latif night and day.

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**Who acts:** spirit · **What happens:** haunt

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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 (spirit), 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:pg76982:9:155
# text = Nuh Halani’s spirit haunted Shah Latif night and day.
1	Nuh	nuh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	Halani	Halani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	haunted	haunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Latif	Latif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haunt** | past | Halani's spirit |  |  |  | night |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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