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title: The boat stopped and the Holy Prophet called Makhdum Nuh by name. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The boat stopped and the Holy Prophet called Makhdum Nuh by name. Who acts: boat, Holy Prophet. 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 clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 31

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The boat stopped and the Holy Prophet called Makhdum Nuh by name.

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**Who acts:** boat, Holy Prophet · **What happens:** stop, call · **To what, where:** Makhdum Nuh · **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 (boat, Holy Prophet), 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:pg76982:10:31
# text = The boat stopped and the Holy Prophet called Makhdum Nuh by name.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	7	compound	_	_
7	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	Makhdum	Makhdum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Nuh	Nuh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | the boat |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **call** | past | the Holy Prophet |  | Makhdum Nuh |  |  | by name | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nuh=Recipient |

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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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