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title: The girl turned on him scornfully and said “A fine hunter you are to… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The girl turned on him scornfully and said “A fine hunter you are to hawk a tame pigeon!” Who acts: girl. 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 of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 239

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The girl turned on him scornfully and said “A fine hunter you are to hawk a tame pigeon!”

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** turn, say, hawk · **To what, where:** tame pigeon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (girl), 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:pg76982:10:239
# text = The girl turned on him scornfully and said “A fine hunter you are to hawk a tame pigeon!”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	scornfully	scornfully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hawk	hawk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the girl |  |  |  |  | on prince; scornfully *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on he=Trajectory |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | a fine hunter *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hawk** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the girl *not said here* | a tame pigeon |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pigeon=Location |

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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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