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title: Nuh Halani changed the spirit of a former disciple into a huge snake… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Nuh Halani changed the spirit of a former disciple into a huge snake and bade it bite the unhappy Shah Latif. Who acts: Halani, 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 160

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Nuh Halani changed the spirit of a former disciple into a huge snake and bade it bite the unhappy Shah Latif.

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**Who acts:** Halani, spirit · **What happens:** change, bite · **To what, where:** spirit, unhappy Shah Latif

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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 (Halani, 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:pg76982:9:160
# text = Nuh Halani changed the spirit of a former disciple into a huge snake and bade it bite the unhappy Shah Latif.
1	Nuh	nuh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	Halani	Halani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	disciple	disciple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	bite	bite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Latif	Latif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | Halani | the spirit of a former disciple |  |  |  | into a huge snake and bade | tree rules |
| 2 | **bite** | present | spirit | the unhappy Shah Latif |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent latif=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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