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title: He was really very stupid; but he had inherited a large fortune from… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He was really very stupid; but he had inherited a large fortune from his father and so he thought himself very clever. Who acts: Nagar. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 35

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He was really very stupid; but he had inherited a large fortune from his father and so he thought himself very clever.

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**Who acts:** Nagar · **What happens:** be, inherit, think · **To what, where:** large fortune, Nagar

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nagar), 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:pg76982:17:35
# text = He was really very stupid; but he had inherited a large fortune from his father and so he thought himself very clever.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	inherited	inherit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Nagar |  |  |  |  | stupid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **inherit** | past · perfect | Nagar | a large fortune |  |  |  | from Nagar's father | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme from father=Source |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Nagar | Nagar |  |  |  | clever *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme |

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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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