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title: Balya Ebn Malkan was the contemporary of Moses and in Chapter 18 of… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Balya Ebn Malkan was the contemporary of Moses and in Chapter 18 of the Koran we find him going with Moses on a most interesting circular tour. Who acts: Balya, we. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 26

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Balya Ebn Malkan was the contemporary of Moses and in Chapter 18 of the Koran we find him going with Moses on a most interesting circular tour.

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**Who acts:** Balya, we · **What happens:** be, find, go · **To what, where:** Balya, 18, interesting circular tour

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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 (Balya, we), 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:pg76982:9:26
# text = Balya Ebn Malkan was the contemporary of Moses and in Chapter 18 of the Koran we find him going with Moses on a most interesting circular tour.
1	Balya	Balya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Ebn	Ebn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Malkan	Malkan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Chapter	Chapter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Koran	Koran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	circular	circular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	tour	tour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Balya |  |  |  |  | of Moses; contemporary *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | present | we | Balya |  | 18  Chapter of the Koran |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | Balya *not said here* |  |  | a interesting circular tour |  | with Moses | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with moses=Beneficiary |

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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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