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title: He plied the old woman with more valuable gifts and for the third ti… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He plied the old woman with more valuable gifts and for the third time asked her blessing. Who acts: proverb, 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 17

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He plied the old woman with more valuable gifts and for the third time asked her blessing.

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**Who acts:** proverb, woman · **What happens:** ply, ask, bless · **To what, where:** old woman, blessing

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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 (proverb, 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:pg76982:12:17
# text = He plied the old woman with more valuable gifts and for the third time asked her blessing.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	plied	ply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
8	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
15	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ply** | past | proverb |  | the old woman |  |  | with more valuable gifts | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient with gift=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | proverb *not said here* | woman's blessing |  |  | time |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent blessing=Recipient |
| 3 | **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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