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title: There were quantities of jewellery among the ruins, which neither fu… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: There were quantities of jewellery among the ruins, which neither fugitive inhabitants nor an enemy would have left. Who acts: quantities, ruins, enemy. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 135

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There were quantities of jewellery among the ruins, which neither fugitive inhabitants nor an enemy would have left.

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**Who acts:** quantities, ruins, enemy · **What happens:** be, inhabitant, leave · **To what, where:** ruins, fugitive inhabitants

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quantities, ruins, enemy), 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:pg76982:10:135
# text = There were quantities of jewellery among the ruins, which neither fugitive inhabitants nor an enemy would have left.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quantities	quantity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	jewellery	jewellery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
12	fugitive	fugitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | quantities of jewellery |  |  | the ruins nor neither fugitive inhabitants; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among ruin=Location |
| 2 | **inhabitant** |  | the ruins nor neither fugitive inhabitants |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | would · perfect | a enemy | neither fugitive inhabitants *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Theme |

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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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