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title: Others say that a holy man gave it the name of Makli because he deem… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Others say that a holy man gave it the name of Makli because he deemed it Maka laali or the threshold of Mecca. Who acts: Others, holy man, man. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 9

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Others say that a holy man gave it the name of Makli because he deemed it Maka laali or the threshold of Mecca.

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**Who acts:** Others, holy man, man · **What happens:** say, give, deem, name · **To what, where:** title, Makli · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Others, holy man, man), 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:pg76982:13:9
# text = Others say that a holy man gave it the name of Makli because he deemed it Maka laali or the threshold of Mecca.
1	Others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Makli	Makli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	deemed	deem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	Maka	Maka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	laali	laali	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Others |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | past | a holy man | title |  |  |  | the name of Makli *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient name=Theme |
| 3 | **deem** | past | man | title |  |  |  | Maka laali or the threshold of Mecca *obj* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme laali=Attribute |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | Makli |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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