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title: “O Makhdum, you have done an act not pleasing to God; You have set a… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: “O Makhdum, you have done an act not pleasing to God; You have set at nought what God had ordained. Who acts: act, God. 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 57

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“O Makhdum, you have done an act not pleasing to God; You have set at nought what God had ordained.

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**Who acts:** act, God · **What happens:** do, not please, set, ordain · **To what, where:** Makhdum, God, You, nought

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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 (act, God), 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:pg76982:10:57
# text = “O Makhdum, you have done an act not pleasing to God; You have set at nought what God had ordained.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	Makhdum	Makhdum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	pleasing	please	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	nought	nought	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	17	obl	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
21	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	ordained	ordain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | Makhdum |  |  |  | you *nsubj*; a act *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **please** *in a quote* | gerund | a act *not said here* |  | God |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **set** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | You |  | nought |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at nought=Destination |
| 4 | **ordain** *in a quote* | past · perfect | God |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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