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title: Now Rupvati for all her beauty was really a bad hearted woman and di… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Rupvati for all her beauty was really a bad hearted woman and directly her husband had gone, she began to take as her lovers all the handsome young men of the neighbourhood. Who acts: beauty, husband, Rupvati. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Magadha and Rupvati.,
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 16

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Now Rupvati for all her beauty was really a bad hearted woman and directly her husband had gone, she began to take as her lovers all the handsome young men of the neighbourhood.

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**Who acts:** beauty, husband, Rupvati · **What happens:** be, go, begin, take · **To what, where:** bad hearted woman, handsome young men

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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 (beauty, 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:pg76982:18:16
# text = Now Rupvati for all her beauty was really a bad hearted woman and directly her husband had gone, she began to take as her lovers all the handsome young men of the neighbourhood.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	Rupvati	Rupvati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	really	really	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	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 | **is a** | past | Rupvati's beauty | a bad hearted woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past · perfect | Rupvati's husband |  |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Rupvati |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | Rupvati *not said here* | all handsome young men of the neighbourhood |  |  |  | as Rupvati's lovers | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent man=Theme as lover=Attribute |

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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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