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title: He was still an ignorant, unlettered boor and for a time he was full… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He was still an ignorant, unlettered boor and for a time he was fully satisfied with his office. Who acts: proverb. 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 20

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He was still an ignorant, unlettered boor and for a time he was fully satisfied with his office.

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**Who acts:** proverb · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** ignorant unlettered boor

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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), 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:pg76982:12:20
# text = He was still an ignorant, unlettered boor and for a time he was fully satisfied with his office.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	unlettered	unlettered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	boor	boor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | proverb | a ignorant unlettered boor |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | proverb |  |  |  | time | with proverb's office; fully, satisfied *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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