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title: The other maid retorted that so far from giving blows, she had recei… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The other maid retorted that so far from giving blows, she had received any number of them; and she, too, called on Vidhya to be her witness. Who acts: other maid, maid. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 76

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The other maid retorted that so far from giving blows, she had received any number of them; and she, too, called on Vidhya to be her witness.

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**Who acts:** other maid, maid · **What happens:** retort, give, receive, call, be · **To what, where:** blows, number, maid, Vidhya, witness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (other maid, maid), 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:pg76982:17:76
# text = The other maid retorted that so far from giving blows, she had received any number of them; and she, too, called on Vidhya to be her witness.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	retorted	retort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Vidhya	Vidhya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **retort** *speech: other* | past | the other maid |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | maid *not said here* | blows |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme |
| 3 | **receive** | past · perfect | maid | any number of blows |  |  |  | far *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | participle · passive |  | maid |  | Vidhya |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | maid's witness |  |  |  | maid *nmod:poss* | 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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