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title: The lady moreover had little liking for her Musulman wooer, although… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The lady moreover had little liking for her Musulman wooer, although perhaps a little flattered by his pressing attentions. Who acts: lady, Musulman. 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 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 40

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The lady moreover had little liking for her Musulman wooer, although perhaps a little flattered by his pressing attentions.

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**Who acts:** lady, Musulman · **What happens:** have, flatter, press, attend · **To what, where:** little liking, little

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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, Musulman), 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:pg76982:14:40
# text = The lady moreover had little liking for her Musulman wooer, although perhaps a little flattered by his pressing attentions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	liking	liking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Musulman	Musulman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	wooer	wooer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	flattered	flatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	pressing	press	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	attentions	attention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the lady | little liking |  |  |  | for lady's Musulman wooer; moreover *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liking=Patient |
| 2 | **flatter** | participle | the lady *not said here* | a little |  |  |  | by Musulman's pressing attentions; perhaps *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **press** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **attend** |  | Musulman |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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