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title: The niche has comfortable cushions and in front of it is laid a copy… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The niche has comfortable cushions and in front of it is laid a copy of the Koran. Who acts: niche. 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 66

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The niche has comfortable cushions and in front of it is laid a copy of the Koran.

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**Who acts:** niche · **What happens:** have, lay, copy · **To what, where:** comfortable cushions, copy, front, Koran

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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 (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:pg76982:9:66
# text = The niche has comfortable cushions and in front of it is laid a copy of the Koran.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	niche	niche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	copy	copy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Koran	Koran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the niche | comfortable cushions |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cushion=Patient |
| 2 | **lay** | present · passive | the niche *not said here* | a copy of the Koran |  | front of niche |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: copy=Theme in front=Destination |
| 3 | **copy** |  |  | the Koran |  |  |  |  | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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