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title: Early in the 18th century the greatest saint in Sind was Makhdum Nia… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Early in the 18th century the greatest saint in Sind was Makhdum Niamat Ullah, the father of a still greater religious luminary, the famous Makhdum Nuh. Who acts: greatest saint. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., with its dependen
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 1

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Early in the 18th century the greatest saint in Sind was Makhdum Niamat Ullah, the father of a still greater religious luminary, the famous Makhdum Nuh.

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**Who acts:** greatest saint · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Makhdum Niamat

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greatest saint), 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:pg76982:10:1
# text = Early in the 18th century the greatest saint in Sind was Makhdum Niamat Ullah, the father of a still greater religious luminary, the famous Makhdum Nuh.
1	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	18th	18th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Sind	Sind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	Makhdum	Makhdum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Niamat	Niamat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
14	Ullah	Ullah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
22	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	luminary	luminary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	Makhdum	Makhdum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Nuh	Nuh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the greatest saint in Sind | Makhdum Niamat and the famous Makhdum Nuh |  |  |  | the father of a greater religious luminary *appos*; the famous Makhdum Nuh *conj* | tree rules |

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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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