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title: As a punishment for betraying Abdul Latif’s hiding place, he became… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: As a punishment for betraying Abdul Latif’s hiding place, he became a leper. Who acts: punishment, Shah. 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 96

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As a punishment for betraying Abdul Latif’s hiding place, he became a leper.

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**Who acts:** punishment, Shah · **What happens:** betray, become · **To what, where:** hiding place, leper

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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 (punishment, 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:pg76982:9:96
# text = As a punishment for betraying Abdul Latif’s hiding place, he became a leper.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	betraying	betray	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	Abdul	Abdul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
7	Latif	Latif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
9	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	leper	leper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **betray** | gerund | a punishment *not said here* | Abdul's hiding place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | Shah | a leper |  |  |  | as a punishment | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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