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title: He advised him to consult Sayad Mahmad Massum Shah. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He advised him to consult Sayad Mahmad Massum Shah. Who acts: Shah, Multan. 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 157

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He advised him to consult Sayad Mahmad Massum Shah.

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**Who acts:** Shah, Multan · **What happens:** advise, consult · **To what, where:** Multan, Sayad Shah

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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 (Shah, Multan), 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:pg76982:9:157
# text = He advised him to consult Sayad Mahmad Massum Shah.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	advised	advise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	consult	consult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	Sayad	Sayad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	Mahmad	Mahmad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	Massum	Massum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | Shah | Multan |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **consult** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Multan *not said here* | Sayad Shah |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shah=Theme |

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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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