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title: Humayun had neither gifts to distribute to his friends nor clothes i… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Humayun had neither gifts to distribute to his friends nor clothes in which to wrap the baby. Who acts: Humayun, gifts. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 20

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Humayun had neither gifts to distribute to his friends nor clothes in which to wrap the baby.

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**Who acts:** Humayun, gifts · **What happens:** have, distribute, wrap · **To what, where:** gifts, friends, baby, clothes

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Humayun, gifts), 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:pg76982:13:20
# text = Humayun had neither gifts to distribute to his friends nor clothes in which to wrap the baby.
1	Humayun	Humayun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	distribute	distribute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	wrap	wrap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	baby	baby	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 | **have** | past | Humayun | neither gifts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **distribute** | to-infinitive | neither gifts *not said here* |  | Humayun's friends nor clothes |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient |
| 3 | **wrap** | to-infinitive | neither gifts *not said here* | the baby |  | clothes |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent baby=Theme in which=Destination |

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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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