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title: Mahomed Nur was shocked at the ingratitude of the base born wretch o… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Mahomed Nur was shocked at the ingratitude of the base born wretch on whom he had lavished favours. Who acts: Mahomed. 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 54

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Mahomed Nur was shocked at the ingratitude of the base born wretch on whom he had lavished favours.

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**Who acts:** Mahomed · **What happens:** be, bear, lavish · **To what, where:** ingratitude, favours

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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 (Mahomed), 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:pg76982:12:54
# text = Mahomed Nur was shocked at the ingratitude of the base born wretch on whom he had lavished favours.
1	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Nur	Nur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	shocked	shocked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ingratitude	ingratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	wretch	wretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	lavished	lavish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	favours	favour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Mahomed |  |  | the ingratitude of the born wretch on the ingratitude of the born wretch on the ingratitude |  | shocked *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | base *compound* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **lavish** | past · perfect | Mahomed | favours |  |  |  |  | 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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