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title: In spite of her former implied promise she still refused to wed a ci… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: In spite of her former implied promise she still refused to wed a circumcised barbarian. 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 46

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In spite of her former implied promise she still refused to wed a circumcised barbarian.

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**Who acts:** lady · **What happens:** imply, refuse, not wed, circumcise, spite, promise · **To what, where:** former implied promise, circumcised barbarian, spite

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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:pg76982:14:46
# text = In spite of her former implied promise she still refused to wed a circumcised barbarian.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	implied	imply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	wed	wed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	circumcised	circumcise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	barbarian	barbarian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imply** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **refuse** | past | lady | lady's former implied promise *not said here* |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **wed** | to-infinitive | lady *not said here* | a circumcised barbarian |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barbarian=Patient |
| 4 | **circumcise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **spite** |  |  | lady's former implied promise |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **promise** |  | lady |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: 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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