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title: From time to time, too, she used to go to Rupvati’s house and work f… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: From time to time, too, she used to go to Rupvati’s house and work for her; for so gentle was her nature that she never bore Rupvati any ill-will. Who acts: 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 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 22

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From time to time, too, she used to go to Rupvati’s house and work for her; for so gentle was her nature that she never bore Rupvati any ill-will.

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**Who acts:** Rupvati · **What happens:** use, go, be, not bear · **To what, where:** house, gentle nature, any, Rupvati

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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 (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:pg76982:18:22
# text = From time to time, too, she used to go to Rupvati’s house and work for her; for so gentle was her nature that she never bore Rupvati any ill-will.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Rupvati	Rupvati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
31	Rupvati	Rupvati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	obj	_	_
33	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **use** | past | Rupvati |  |  |  | time |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | Rupvati *not said here* |  |  | Rupvati's house and work |  | for Rupvati | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | Rupvati's gentle nature |  |  |  | Rupvati *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **bear** | past | Rupvati | any | Rupvati |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent rupvati=Beneficiary any=Patient |

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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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