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title: Abdul Latif’s grandfather Shah Karim was a Sayad of Matari and so ce… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Abdul Latif’s grandfather Shah Karim was a Sayad of Matari and so celebrated for his piety that his mausoleum at Bulree in the Karachi District is still the scene of an annual fair. Who acts: grandfather, mausoleum. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir., with it
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 70

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Abdul Latif’s grandfather Shah Karim was a Sayad of Matari and so celebrated for his piety that his mausoleum at Bulree in the Karachi District is still the scene of an annual fair.

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**Who acts:** grandfather, mausoleum · **What happens:** be, celebrate · **To what, where:** Sayad, scene

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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 (grandfather, mausoleum), 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:pg76982:9:70
# text = Abdul Latif’s grandfather Shah Karim was a Sayad of Matari and so celebrated for his piety that his mausoleum at Bulree in the Karachi District is still the scene of an annual fair.
1	Abdul	Abdul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Latif	Latif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	Karim	Karim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Sayad	Sayad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Matari	Matari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	piety	piety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mausoleum	mausoleum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Bulree	Bulree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Karachi	Karachi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	District	District	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	still	still	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Abdul's grandfather | a Sayad |  |  |  | of Matari | tree rules |
| 2 | **celebrate** | participle | Abdul's grandfather *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for ABDUL's piety | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for piety=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | present | ABDUL's mausoleum at Bulree in the Karachi District | the scene |  |  | still | of a annual fair | 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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