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title: Many years later Mian Nur Mahomed Kalhoro widened the Shahlal Wah an… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Many years later Mian Nur Mahomed Kalhoro widened the Shahlal Wah and changed its name to Ghar canal, i.e., the canal broken by the tree driven by the Saint’s superhuman powers. Who acts: Nur Mahomed, stream. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill., with its 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 121

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Many years later Mian Nur Mahomed Kalhoro widened the Shahlal Wah and changed its name to Ghar canal, i.e., the canal broken by the tree driven by the Saint’s superhuman powers.

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**Who acts:** Nur Mahomed, stream · **What happens:** widen, change, break, drive, name · **To what, where:** Shahlal Wah, name, canal, tree

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nur Mahomed, stream), 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:pg76982:13:121
# text = Many years later Mian Nur Mahomed Kalhoro widened the Shahlal Wah and changed its name to Ghar canal, i.e., the canal broken by the tree driven by the Saint’s superhuman powers.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
4	Mian	mian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Nur	Nur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Kalhoro	Kalhoro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	widened	widen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Shahlal	Shahlal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Wah	Wah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Ghar	Ghar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	superhuman	superhuman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **widen** | past | Nur Mahomed | the Shahlal Wah |  |  |  | late *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wah=Patient |
| 2 | **change** | past | Nur Mahomed *not said here* | stream's name |  |  |  | to Ghar canal  the canal | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 3 | **break** | participle |  | the canal *not said here* |  |  |  | by the tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by tree=Location |
| 4 | **drive** | participle |  | the tree *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Saint's superhuman powers | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **name** |  | stream |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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