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title: During Al Khisr’s existence as Balya Ebn Malkan he found and drank t… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: During Al Khisr’s existence as Balya Ebn Malkan he found and drank the waters of immortality. Who acts: God, Al. 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 56

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During Al Khisr’s existence as Balya Ebn Malkan he found and drank the waters of immortality.

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**Who acts:** God, Al · **What happens:** find, drink, exist · **To what, where:** waters

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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 (God, Al), 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:pg76982:9:56
# text = During Al Khisr’s existence as Balya Ebn Malkan he found and drank the waters of immortality.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	Khisr	Khisr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
5	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Balya	Balya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	Ebn	Ebn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	Malkan	Malkan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	immortality	immortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | God |  |  |  | during Al's existence as Balya Malkan |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drink** | past | God *not said here* | the waters of immortality |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 3 | **exist** |  | Al |  |  |  |  | as Balya Malkan | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent as=obl |

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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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