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title: Al Khisr answered that if Moses came and suffered all that Al Khisr… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Al Khisr answered that if Moses came and suffered all that Al Khisr did without asking any questions he could be his disciple, but not otherwise. Who acts: Al, Moses. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 36

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Al Khisr answered that if Moses came and suffered all that Al Khisr did without asking any questions he could be his disciple, but not otherwise.

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**Who acts:** Al, Moses · **What happens:** answer, come, suffer, do, ask, be · **To what, where:** all, questions, disciple · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Al, Moses), 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:pg76982:9:36
# text = Al Khisr answered that if Moses came and suffered all that Al Khisr did without asking any questions he could be his disciple, but not otherwise.
1	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Khisr	Khisr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
12	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	Khisr	Khisr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	disciple	disciple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Al |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Moses |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **suffer** | past | Moses *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **do** | past | Al |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Al *not said here* | any questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
| 6 | **is a** | could | Moses | Moses's disciple |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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