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title: But the Madu maiden disliking his looks and tone, told him to get on… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Madu maiden disliking his looks and tone, told him to get one of his servants to fetch water for him. Who acts: Madu maiden. 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 241

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But the Madu maiden disliking his looks and tone, told him to get one of his servants to fetch water for him.

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**Who acts:** Madu maiden · **What happens:** dislike, tell, get, fetch · **To what, where:** looks, prince, one, water · **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 (Madu maiden), 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:pg76982:10:241
# text = But the Madu maiden disliking his looks and tone, told him to get one of his servants to fetch water for him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Madu	Madu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	disliking	dislike	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dislike** | gerund | the Madu maiden *not said here* | prince's looks and tone |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer look=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Madu maiden |  | prince |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Madu maiden *not said here* | one of prince's servants |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | the Madu maiden *not said here* | water |  |  |  | for prince | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent water=Theme for he=Beneficiary |

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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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