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title: She felt sure that what he ordered was for the best and she promised… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: She felt sure that what he ordered was for the best and she promised to do everything that Rupvati told her. Who acts: Magadha, husband, Rupvati. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Magadha and Rupvati., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 15

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She felt sure that what he ordered was for the best and she promised to do everything that Rupvati told her.

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**Who acts:** Magadha, husband, Rupvati · **What happens:** feel, order, be, promise, do, tell · **To what, where:** everything, Magadha · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Magadha and Rupvati.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Magadha, husband, Rupvati), 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:pg76982:18:15
# text = She felt sure that what he ordered was for the best and she promised to do everything that Rupvati told her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	ccomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	16	obj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	Rupvati	Rupvati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Magadha |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **order** | past | husband |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj*; good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Magadha |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Magadha *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Rupvati |  | Magadha |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

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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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