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title: Elijah has in his leisure moments read the Koran from cover to cover. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Elijah has in his leisure moments read the Koran from cover to cover. Who acts: Elijah, leisure moments. 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 68

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Elijah has in his leisure moments read the Koran from cover to cover.

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**Who acts:** Elijah, leisure moments · **What happens:** have, read, cover · **To what, where:** Koran, cover

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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 (Elijah, leisure moments), 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:pg76982:9:68
# text = Elijah has in his leisure moments read the Koran from cover to cover.
1	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	leisure	leisure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	read	read	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Koran	Koran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Elijah |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **read** | present | Elijah's leisure moments | the Koran |  | cover |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent koran=Topic from cover=Source |
| 3 | **cover** | to-infinitive | Elijah's leisure moments *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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