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title: Nadir Khan liked Nur Mahomed’s answer and instead of war there was p… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Nadir Khan liked Nur Mahomed’s answer and instead of war there was peace, and instead of battles and skirmishes there were visits and reviews and banquets. Who acts: Nadir, peace, Nur. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad., with its dependency tree and 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 43

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Nadir Khan liked Nur Mahomed’s answer and instead of war there was peace, and instead of battles and skirmishes there were visits and reviews and banquets.

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**Who acts:** Nadir, peace, Nur · **What happens:** like, be, answer · **To what, where:** answer

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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 (Nadir, peace, Nur), 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:pg76982:12:43
# text = Nadir Khan liked Nur Mahomed’s answer and instead of war there was peace, and instead of battles and skirmishes there were visits and reviews and banquets.
1	Nadir	Nadir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Nur	Nur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
7	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	skirmishes	skirmish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	reviews	review	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	banquets	banquet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | past | Nadir | Nur's answer |  |  |  | instead battles and skirmishes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot answer=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | peace |  |  | there |  | instead war | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **answer** |  | Nur |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «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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