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title: The tale runs that while Shah Karim was yet a boy, he met a fakir in… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The tale runs that while Shah Karim was yet a boy, he met a fakir in a mosque. Who acts: tale, Shah Karim, Karim. 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 72

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The tale runs that while Shah Karim was yet a boy, he met a fakir in a mosque.

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**Who acts:** tale, Shah Karim, Karim · **What happens:** run, be, meet · **To what, where:** boy, fakir, mosque

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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 (tale, Shah Karim, Karim), 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:pg76982:9:72
# text = The tale runs that while Shah Karim was yet a boy, he met a fakir in a mosque.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Karim	Karim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fakir	fakir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mosque	mosque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | the tale |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Shah Karim | a boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **meet** | past | Karim | a fakir |  | a mosque |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fakir=Co-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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