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title: The island is still there and bears on its rounded back a temple to… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The island is still there and bears on its rounded back a temple to Zinda Pir. Who acts: island, bears. 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 2

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The island is still there and bears on its rounded back a temple to Zinda Pir.

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**Who acts:** island, bears · **What happens:** be, round back · **To what, where:** temple

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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 (island, bears), 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:pg76982:9:2
# text = The island is still there and bears on its rounded back a temple to Zinda Pir.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	rounded	round	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Zinda	Zinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	Pir	Pir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the island |  |  |  | still | bears *conj*; there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **round back** | participle | bears *not said here* | a temple |  |  |  | to Zinda *result*; island *nmod:poss* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent temple=Patient to zinda=Result |

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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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