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title: When Nigar vowed that in spite of her father she would wed the bold… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: When Nigar vowed that in spite of her father she would wed the bold Arabian, Raja Neran threw her into a well and had a huge stone put over its mouth. Who acts: Nigar, Straightway, Raja. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., with its 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 95

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When Nigar vowed that in spite of her father she would wed the bold Arabian, Raja Neran threw her into a well and had a huge stone put over its mouth.

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**Who acts:** Nigar, Straightway, Raja · **What happens:** vow, wed, throw, have, put, spite · **To what, where:** bold Arabian, spite, Straightway, well, huge stone, mouth

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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 (Nigar, Straightway, Raja), 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:pg76982:10:95
# text = When Nigar vowed that in spite of her father she would wed the bold Arabian, Raja Neran threw her into a well and had a huge stone put over its mouth.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Nigar	Nigar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	vowed	vow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	wed	wed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Arabian	Arabian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	Neran	Neran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vow** | past | Nigar |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wed** | would | Straightway | the bold Arabian |  | spite of Straightway's father |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arabian=Patient |
| 3 | **throw** | past | Raja | Straightway |  |  |  | into a well *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer she=Theme into well=Result |
| 4 | **have** | past | Raja *not said here* | a huge stone |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient |
| 5 | **put** | participle |  | a huge stone *not said here* |  | stone's mouth |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over mouth=Destination |
| 6 | **spite** |  |  | Straightway's father |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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