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title: Nuh Halani’s descendant Makhdum Mahmad Zaman could not bear the sight. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Nuh Halani’s descendant Makhdum Mahmad Zaman could not bear the sight. Who acts: Makhdum. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 162

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Nuh Halani’s descendant Makhdum Mahmad Zaman could not bear the sight.

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**Who acts:** Makhdum · **What happens:** not bear · **To what, where:** sight

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Makhdum), 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:pg76982:9:162
# text = Nuh Halani’s descendant Makhdum Mahmad Zaman could not bear the sight.
1	Nuh	nuh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
2	Halani	Halani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	descendant	descendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Makhdum	Makhdum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	Mahmad	Mahmad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	Zaman	Zaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bear** | could | Makhdum  Halani's descendant | the sight |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=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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