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title: The well into which Nigar was thrown is one of the three inside Nera… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The well into which Nigar was thrown is one of the three inside Nerankot, but none could tell me with certainty which it was. Who acts: none. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 121

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The well into which Nigar was thrown is one of the three inside Nerankot, but none could tell me with certainty which it was.

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**Who acts:** none · **What happens:** throw, be, tell · **To what, where:** Nigar, thrown one, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (none), 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:pg76982:10:121
# text = The well into which Nigar was thrown is one of the three inside Nerankot, but none could tell me with certainty which it was.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
2	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
5	Nigar	Nigar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
13	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Nerankot	Nerankot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	certainty	certainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past · passive |  | Nigar |  |  |  | which *obl*; well *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into which=Result |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the thrown one |  |  |  | of the three inside Nerankot | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | none |  | me |  |  | with certainty | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **be** | past |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; certainty *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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