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title: For many months he brought her daily small gifts of food or money; t… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: For many months he brought her daily small gifts of food or money; then he summoned up courage to ask again for her blessing. Who acts: hair, woman. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 13

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For many months he brought her daily small gifts of food or money; then he summoned up courage to ask again for her blessing.

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**Who acts:** hair, woman · **What happens:** bring, summon up, ask, gift, bless · **To what, where:** daily small gifts, courage, food

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, woman), 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:pg76982:12:13
# text = For many months he brought her daily small gifts of food or money; then he summoned up courage to ask again for her blessing.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | hair | woman's daily small gifts of food or money |  |  | month |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |
| 2 | **summon up** | past | hair | courage |  |  | then |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Recipient |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | hair *not said here* |  |  |  | again | for woman's blessing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **gift** |  | woman | food or money |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 5 | **bless** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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