What is needed to select a decisive reading of “jāʾa Zaydun wa-ṣadīquhu yabkī”?

Supplementary Practice 3: Rhetorical Judgment, Contextual Evidence and Combined Devices

• Context establishing whether the crying is concurrent circumstance or independent report
• Because wāw makes coordination the only possible reading
• Because an imperfect verb must always describe a separate future event
• Because a different subject always rules out a circumstantial reading