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title: Somewhere in the early part of the eighteenth century, when Nur Maho… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Somewhere in the early part of the eighteenth century, when Nur Mahomed Kalhoro was ruler of Sind, he had as jamadar or headman of his grass-cutters a certain Murad, known as Murad Ganjo or Murad the Bald. Who acts: Sind. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 5

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Somewhere in the early part of the eighteenth century, when Nur Mahomed Kalhoro was ruler of Sind, he had as jamadar or headman of his grass-cutters a certain Murad, known as Murad Ganjo or Murad the Bald.

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**Who acts:** Sind · **What happens:** be, have, know · **To what, where:** Nur ruler, certain Murad

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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 (Sind), 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:pg76982:12:5
# text = Somewhere in the early part of the eighteenth century, when Nur Mahomed Kalhoro was ruler of Sind, he had as jamadar or headman of his grass-cutters a certain Murad, known as Murad Ganjo or Murad the Bald.
1	Somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	eighteenth	eighteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
12	Nur	Nur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
13	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	Kalhoro	Kalhoro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Sind	Sind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	jamadar	jamadar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	headman	headman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
28	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	cutters	cutter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Murad	Murad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	Murad	Murad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Ganjo	Ganjo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	Murad	Murad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Bald	Bald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Sind *not said here* | Nur ruler |  |  |  | of Sind | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | Sind |  |  |  |  | as jamadar or headman of Sind's grass cutters  a certain Murad; somewhere *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  | a certain Murad *not said here* |  |  |  | as Murad Ganjo or Murad | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as ganjo=Attribute |

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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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