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title: Not many months passed before Nur Mahomed Kalhoro, still more please… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Not many months passed before Nur Mahomed Kalhoro, still more pleased with Murad’s steady and faithful work, promoted him to be a Naib Subha. Who acts: Murad. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 15

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Not many months passed before Nur Mahomed Kalhoro, still more pleased with Murad’s steady and faithful work, promoted him to be a Naib Subha.

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**Who acts:** Murad · **What happens:** pass, promote, be, work · **To what, where:** many months, hair, Naib Subha

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Murad), 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:pg76982:12:15
# text = Not many months passed before Nur Mahomed Kalhoro, still more pleased with Murad’s steady and faithful work, promoted him to be a Naib Subha.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Nur	Nur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	Kalhoro	Kalhoro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
14	Murad	Murad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	promoted	promote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Naib	Naib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Subha	Subha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | participle · passive |  | many months |  |  | before Nur Kalhoro |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme before kalhoro=Destination |
| 2 | **promote** | past |  | hair |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a Naib Subha |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** |  | Murad |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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