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title: Shah Karim became the spiritual follower of this fakir and grew up s… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Shah Karim became the spiritual follower of this fakir and grew up so renowned a saint that it was commonly said that whereas Bahawaldin, a rival saint, could make a live man dead, Shah Karim could make a dead man alive. Who acts: Shah. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 74

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Shah Karim became the spiritual follower of this fakir and grew up so renowned a saint that it was commonly said that whereas Bahawaldin, a rival saint, could make a live man dead, Shah Karim could make a dead man alive.

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**Who acts:** Shah · **What happens:** become, grow up, renown, say, make · **To what, where:** spiritual follower, saint, follower, live man, dead man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Shah), 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:pg76982:9:74
# text = Shah Karim became the spiritual follower of this fakir and grew up so renowned a saint that it was commonly said that whereas Bahawaldin, a rival saint, could make a live man dead, Shah Karim could make a dead man alive.
1	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Karim	Karim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	follower	follower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	fakir	fakir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	renowned	renown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
23	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Bahawaldin	Bahawaldin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	rival	rival	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
38	Karim	Karim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	_
39	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Shah | the spiritual follower of this fakir |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **grow up** | past | Shah *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **renown** | past | Shah *not said here* | a saint |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | follower |  |  |  | commonly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **make** | could |  | a live man |  |  |  | whereas Bahawaldin; dead *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product |
| 6 | **make** | could | Shah | a dead man |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Product |

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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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