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title: He had hardly finished his prayer, when the stone rolled aside and N… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He had hardly finished his prayer, when the stone rolled aside and Nigar with Haidar Ali’s help was able to climb out of the well. Who acts: news, stone, Nigar, Haidar. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., with its dependency tree an
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 102

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He had hardly finished his prayer, when the stone rolled aside and Nigar with Haidar Ali’s help was able to climb out of the well.

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**Who acts:** news, stone, Nigar, Haidar · **What happens:** finish, roll, be, climb, pray, help · **To what, where:** prayer, well

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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 (news, stone, Nigar, Haidar), 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:pg76982:10:102
# text = He had hardly finished his prayer, when the stone rolled aside and Nigar with Haidar Ali’s help was able to climb out of the well.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	Nigar	Nigar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
15	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	Haidar	Haidar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
19	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | news | news's prayer |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector prayer=Eventuality |
| 2 | **roll** | past | the stone |  |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Nigar |  |  |  |  | Haidar's help *nsubj*; able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **climb** | to-infinitive | Nigar *not said here* |  |  | the well |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out well=Trajectory |
| 5 | **pray** |  | news |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **help** |  | Haidar |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: poss=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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