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title: The latter in turn advised him to migrate to Bhitta, then a desolate… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The latter in turn advised him to migrate to Bhitta, then a desolate mound of sand. Who acts: latter turn, Shah. 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 158

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The latter in turn advised him to migrate to Bhitta, then a desolate mound of sand.

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**Who acts:** latter turn, Shah · **What happens:** advise, migrate, desolate · **To what, where:** Shah, Bhitta, mound

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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 (latter turn, 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:pg76982:9:158
# text = The latter in turn advised him to migrate to Bhitta, then a desolate mound of sand.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	advised	advise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	migrate	migrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Bhitta	Bhitta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | the latter turn | Shah |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **migrate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Shah *not said here* |  | Bhitta |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **desolate** | infinitive | the latter turn *not said here* | mound of sand |  |  | then |  | tree rules |

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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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