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title: Even a man so holy as Makhdum Nuh could not escape from the malice o… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Even a man so holy as Makhdum Nuh could not escape from the malice of mankind. Who acts: man. 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 50

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Even a man so holy as Makhdum Nuh could not escape from the malice of mankind.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** not escape · **To what, where:** malice

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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 (man), 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:pg76982:10:50
# text = Even a man so holy as Makhdum Nuh could not escape from the malice of mankind.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Makhdum	Makhdum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Nuh	Nuh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	malice	malice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **escape** | could | a man |  |  | the malice of mankind |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from malice=Initial\_Location |

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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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