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title: Somewhere in the tenth century A.D. a Hindu king called Dalurai rule… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Somewhere in the tenth century A.D. a Hindu king called Dalurai ruled at Alor. Who acts: Hindu king. 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 6

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Somewhere in the tenth century A.D. a Hindu king called Dalurai ruled at Alor.

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**Who acts:** Hindu king · **What happens:** call, rule · **To what, where:** Hindu king, Alor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Hindu king), 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:pg76982:9:6
# text = Somewhere in the tenth century A.D. a Hindu king called Dalurai ruled at Alor.
1	Somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	tenth	tenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	A.D	A.D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Hindu	hindu	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	Dalurai	Dalurai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
13	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Alor	Alor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | a Hindu king *not said here* |  |  |  | Dalurai *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rule** | past | a Hindu king |  |  | Alor |  | somewhere *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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