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title: He told Abdul Latif’s father, Shah Habib, who had his son dug up. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He told Abdul Latif’s father, Shah Habib, who had his son dug up. Who acts: ABDUL, Shah, son. 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 89

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He told Abdul Latif’s father, Shah Habib, who had his son dug up.

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**Who acts:** ABDUL, Shah, son · **What happens:** tell, have, dig up · **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 (ABDUL, Shah, son), 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:pg76982:9:89
# text = He told Abdul Latif’s father, Shah Habib, who had his son dug up.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Abdul	Abdul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	Latif	Latif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
9	Habib	Habib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | ABDUL |  |  |  |  | Shah  Abdul's father *ccomp* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | Shah  Abdul's father |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dig up** | past | ABDUL's son |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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