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title: But she scornfully rejected his promises of rich clothes and fine je… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But she scornfully rejected his promises of rich clothes and fine jewels. Who acts: girl, prince. 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 256

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But she scornfully rejected his promises of rich clothes and fine jewels.

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**Who acts:** girl, prince · **What happens:** reject, promise · **To what, where:** promises, rich clothes

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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, prince), 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:pg76982:10:256
# text = But she scornfully rejected his promises of rich clothes and fine jewels.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	scornfully	scornfully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	rejected	reject	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **reject** | past | girl | prince's promises of rich clothes and fine jewels |  |  |  | scornfully *property* | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |
| 2 | **promise** |  | prince | rich clothes and fine jewels |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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