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title: There is a French proverb which says L’appétit vient en mangeant, th… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a French proverb which says L’appétit vient en mangeant, that is to say the greedy are never satisfied; and Murad began to feel soon that the post of Naib Subha was far beneath his merits. Who acts: French proverb, that, greedy, Murad. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 16

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There is a French proverb which says L’appétit vient en mangeant, that is to say the greedy are never satisfied; and Murad began to feel soon that the post of Naib Subha was far beneath his merits.

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**Who acts:** French proverb, that, greedy, Murad, post · **What happens:** be, say, not be, begin, feel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (French proverb, that, greedy, Murad), 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:pg76982:12:16
# text = There is a French proverb which says L’appétit vient en mangeant, that is to say the greedy are never satisfied; and Murad began to feel soon that the post of Naib Subha was far beneath his merits.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	L’appétit	L'appétit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
9	vient	vient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	mangeant	mangeant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj:outer	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Murad	Murad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Naib	Naib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	Subha	Subha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
36	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	advmod	_	_
37	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	merits	merit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a French proverb |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a French proverb |  |  |  |  | L’appétit  vient en mangeant *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | that |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | the greedy |  |  |  |  | satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **begin** | past | Murad |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **feel** | to-infinitive | Murad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** | past | the post of Naib |  |  |  |  | beneath L’appétit's merits; L’appétit *= l'appétit* *nmod:poss*; far *property* | tree rules |

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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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