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title: To attend more closely to their prayers, Al Khisr comes in person to… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: To attend more closely to their prayers, Al Khisr comes in person to his temple and for forty days sits in a little niche specially reserved for him. Who acts: Al, person, little niche. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir., with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 65

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To attend more closely to their prayers, Al Khisr comes in person to his temple and for forty days sits in a little niche specially reserved for him.

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**Who acts:** Al, person, little niche · **What happens:** attend, come, sit, reserve, pray · **To what, where:** little niche

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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 (Al, person, little niche), 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:pg76982:9:65
# text = To attend more closely to their prayers, Al Khisr comes in person to his temple and for forty days sits in a little niche specially reserved for him.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Khisr	Khisr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	niche	niche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	specially	specially	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	reserved	reserve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attend** | to-infinitive | Al *not said here* |  |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present | Al |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | present | person to person's temple and forty days |  |  | a little niche |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in niche=Location |
| 4 | **reserve** | past | a little niche *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for person; specially *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **pray** |  | Al |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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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