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title: The lady would not join Islam and he could not, if he would, become… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The lady would not join Islam and he could not, if he would, become a Hindu. Who acts: lady. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 38

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The lady would not join Islam and he could not, if he would, become a Hindu.

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**Who acts:** lady · **What happens:** not join, become · **To what, where:** Islam

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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:pg76982:14:38
# text = The lady would not join Islam and he could not, if he would, become a Hindu.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Hindu	Hindu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **join** | would | the lady | Islam |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent islam=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | would | the lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  | a Hindu *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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