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title: Abdul Latif did not stay long in his father’s house, but began to wa… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Abdul Latif did not stay long in his father’s house, but began to wander about Sind. Who acts: Abdul. 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 98

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Abdul Latif did not stay long in his father’s house, but began to wander about Sind.

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**Who acts:** Abdul · **What happens:** not stay, begin, wander · **To what, where:** house, Sind

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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), 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:pg76982:9:98
# text = Abdul Latif did not stay long in his father’s house, but began to wander about Sind.
1	Abdul	Abdul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Latif	Latif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	Sind	Sind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stay** | past · do-support | Abdul |  |  | ABDUL's father's house |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Abdul *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **wander** | to-infinitive | Abdul *not said here* | Sind |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location sind=Theme |

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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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