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title: To-day the special duty of Zinda Pir is to help the Indus boatmen wh… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: To-day the special duty of Zinda Pir is to help the Indus boatmen when in distress. Who acts: special duty. 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 59

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To-day the special duty of Zinda Pir is to help the Indus boatmen when in distress.

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**Who acts:** special duty · **What happens:** be

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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 (special duty), 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:pg76982:9:59
# text = To-day the special duty of Zinda Pir is to help the Indus boatmen when in distress.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Zinda	Zinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	Pir	Pir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Indus	Indus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	boatmen	boatman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the special duty of Zinda |  |  |  | day | the Indus boatmen *obj*; help *property* | tree rules |

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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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