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title: One night Shah Latif appeared to him in a vision and bade him recite… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: One night Shah Latif appeared to him in a vision and bade him recite on the following Friday some lines from the Shah jo Rasalo. Who acts: 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 189

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One night Shah Latif appeared to him in a vision and bade him recite on the following Friday some lines from the Shah jo Rasalo.

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**Who acts:** Shah · **What happens:** appear, recite, follow · **To what, where:** disciple, vision

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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), 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:pg76982:9:189
# text = One night Shah Latif appeared to him in a vision and bade him recite on the following Friday some lines from the Shah jo Rasalo.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Latif	Latif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
14	recite	recite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	jo	jo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	Rasalo	Rasalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | Shah |  | disciple |  | night |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **recite** | infinitive |  |  |  | a vision  disciple and bade | friday |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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