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title: Then he sent for the Brahman boy and asked him whether he would sell… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he sent for the Brahman boy and asked him whether he would sell him wisdom and, if so, at what price. Who acts: king. 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 99

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Then he sent for the Brahman boy and asked him whether he would sell him wisdom and, if so, at what price.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** send, ask, sell · **To what, where:** king, wisdom, boy

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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 (king), 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:pg76982:17:99
# text = Then he sent for the Brahman boy and asked him whether he would sell him wisdom and, if so, at what price.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	parataxis	_	_
24	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | king |  |  |  | then | for the Brahman boy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | king *not said here* |  | king |  |  | what  price *parataxis* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sell** *not said to happen* | would | king | wisdom | boy |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wisdom=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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