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title: Unhappily a quarrel broke out between these two eminent men and Sala… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Unhappily a quarrel broke out between these two eminent men and Salar refused to give his daughter. Who acts: quarrel, Salar. 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 53

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Unhappily a quarrel broke out between these two eminent men and Salar refused to give his daughter.

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**Who acts:** quarrel, Salar · **What happens:** break out, refuse, not give · **To what, where:** daughter

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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 (quarrel, Salar), 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:pg76982:10:53
# text = Unhappily a quarrel broke out between these two eminent men and Salar refused to give his daughter.
1	Unhappily	unhappily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	eminent	eminent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	Salar	Salar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break out** | past | a quarrel |  |  |  |  | between two eminent men  these; unhappily *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between man=Location |
| 2 | **refuse** | past | Salar |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **give** | to-infinitive | Salar *not said here* |  | Salar's daughter |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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