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title: Shah Makai’s real name was Shah Mahmud; but because he lived at Maka… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Shah Makai’s real name was Shah Mahmud; but because he lived at Maka or Mecca, he was known as Shah Makai. Who acts: real name, Haidar, Shah. 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 81

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Shah Makai’s real name was Shah Mahmud; but because he lived at Maka or Mecca, he was known as Shah Makai.

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**Who acts:** real name, Haidar, Shah · **What happens:** be, live, know, name · **To what, where:** Shah, Maka, Haidar

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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 (real name, Haidar, Shah), 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:pg76982:10:81
# text = Shah Makai’s real name was Shah Mahmud; but because he lived at Maka or Mecca, he was known as Shah Makai.
1	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Makai	Makai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	Mahmud	Mahmud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Maka	Maka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	Makai	Makai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Shah's real name | Shah |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past | Haidar |  |  | Maka or Mecca |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at maka=Location |
| 3 | **know** | past · passive |  | Haidar |  |  |  | as Shah | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as shah=Attribute |
| 4 | **name** |  | Shah |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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