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title: Yet unless one or the other became a convert, marriage between them… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet unless one or the other became a convert, marriage between them was impossible. Who acts: one, convert. 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 39

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Yet unless one or the other became a convert, marriage between them was impossible.

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**Who acts:** one, convert · **What happens:** become, be

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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 (one, convert), 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:pg76982:14:39
# text = Yet unless one or the other became a convert, marriage between them was impossible.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	convert	convert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | a convert and marriage between girls |  |  |  |  | impossible *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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