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title: Muzaffar complained to Makhdum Nuh, who after hearing both sides ord… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Muzaffar complained to Makhdum Nuh, who after hearing both sides ordered Salar to keep his promise. Who acts: Muzaffar, Makhdum, Salar. 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 55

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Muzaffar complained to Makhdum Nuh, who after hearing both sides ordered Salar to keep his promise.

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**Who acts:** Muzaffar, Makhdum, Salar · **What happens:** complain, hear, order, keep, promise · **To what, where:** Makhdum, sides, Salar, promise

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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 (Muzaffar, Makhdum, Salar), 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:pg76982:10:55
# text = Muzaffar complained to Makhdum Nuh, who after hearing both sides ordered Salar to keep his promise.
1	Muzaffar	Muzaffar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	complained	complain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Makhdum	Makhdum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	Nuh	Nuh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
10	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
13	Salar	Salar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **complain** *speech: other* | past | Muzaffar |  | Makhdum |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to makhdum=Recipient |
| 2 | **hear** | gerund | Makhdum *not said here* | both sides |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer side=Stimulus |
| 3 | **order** | past | Makhdum |  | Salar |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent salar=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Makhdum *not said here* | Salar's promise |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |
| 5 | **promise** |  | Salar |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication 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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