---
title: Nevertheless Nadir the Afghan was not quite sure that Nur Mahomed Ka… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless Nadir the Afghan was not quite sure that Nur Mahomed Kalhoro had not seized his beautiful queen and hidden her in some deep recess of his own harem. Who acts: Nadir. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad., with its dependency tree and the pr
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/12/44/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/) / [The Noose of Murad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/12/) / 44

# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 44

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nevertheless Nadir the Afghan was not quite sure that Nur Mahomed Kalhoro had not seized his beautiful queen and hidden her in some deep recess of his own harem.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Nadir · **What happens:** not be, not seize, hide, recess · **To what, where:** Nur, deep recess, own harem

<!-- .vabout -->
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:12:44
# text = Nevertheless Nadir the Afghan was not quite sure that Nur Mahomed Kalhoro had not seized his beautiful queen and hidden her in some deep recess of his own harem.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Nadir	Nadir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Afghan	Afghan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	Nur	Nur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	Kalhoro	Kalhoro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	hidden	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	recess	recess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	harem	harem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | Nadir |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **seize** | past · perfect · passive |  | Nur |  |  |  | Nadir's beautiful queen *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hide** | past |  | Nur |  | some deep recess of Nadir's own harem |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient in recess=Location |
| 4 | **recess** |  |  | Nadir's own harem |  |  |  |  | nom recess «state transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/12/43/)
- next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/12/45/)
- ↑ back to [The Noose of Murad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/12/)