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title: “If the wind were to blow furiously all over the world It could neve… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: “If the wind were to blow furiously all over the world It could never extinguish the lamp of those accepted by the Most High. Who acts: wind. 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 68

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“If the wind were to blow furiously all over the world It could never extinguish the lamp of those accepted by the Most High.

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**Who acts:** wind · **What happens:** blow, not extinguish, accept · **To what, where:** lamp, world

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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 (wind), 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:pg76982:10:68
# text = “If the wind were to blow furiously all over the world It could never extinguish the lamp of those accepted by the Most High.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	furiously	furiously	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
13	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	extinguish	extinguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	nmod	_	_
21	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** *in a quote* | past | the wind |  |  |  |  | furiously *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **extinguish** *in a quote* | could | wind | the lamp of those |  | the world |  | all *property* | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lamp=Patient |
| 3 | **accept** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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