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title: The unhappy Abdul Latif went and sat on a sandhill and watched the h… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The unhappy Abdul Latif went and sat on a sandhill and watched the house of the Moghul girl with such devotion from afar, that the sandhill grew round him until it had covered all but his head. Who acts: unhappy Abdul, sandhill. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 87

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The unhappy Abdul Latif went and sat on a sandhill and watched the house of the Moghul girl with such devotion from afar, that the sandhill grew round him until it had covered all but his head.

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**Who acts:** unhappy Abdul, sandhill · **What happens:** go, sit, watch, grow, cover · **To what, where:** sandhill, house

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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 (unhappy Abdul, sandhill), 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:pg76982:9:87
# text = The unhappy Abdul Latif went and sat on a sandhill and watched the house of the Moghul girl with such devotion from afar, that the sandhill grew round him until it had covered all but his head.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Abdul	Abdul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Latif	Latif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sandhill	sandhill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Moghul	Moghul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	devotion	devotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sandhill	sandhill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
29	round	round	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
35	all	all	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the unhappy Abdul |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the unhappy Abdul *not said here* |  |  | a sandhill |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sandhill=Location |
| 3 | **watch** | past | the unhappy Abdul *not said here* | the house of the Moghul girl with such devotion from afar |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | past | the sandhill |  |  |  |  | round ABDUL | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cover** | past · perfect · passive |  | sandhill |  |  |  | ABDUL's head *conj*; all *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |

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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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