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title: After all stranger things had happened before and “Allah alone knowe… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: After all stranger things had happened before and “Allah alone knoweth all.” Who acts: stranger things, Allah. 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 clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 23

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After all stranger things had happened before and “Allah alone knoweth all.”

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**Who acts:** stranger things, Allah · **What happens:** happen, know · **To what, where:** all

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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 (stranger things, Allah), 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:pg76982:12:23
# text = After all stranger things had happened before and “Allah alone knoweth all.”
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	stranger	strange	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	before	before	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Allah	Allah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	knoweth	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past · perfect | all stranger things |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Allah | all |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus |

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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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