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title: But Bhamini instead of taking Magadha’s part, thought it a good chan… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But Bhamini instead of taking Magadha’s part, thought it a good chance to play a cruel practical joke on her. Who acts: Bhamini. 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 31

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But Bhamini instead of taking Magadha’s part, thought it a good chance to play a cruel practical joke on her.

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**Who acts:** Bhamini · **What happens:** take, think, play · **To what, where:** part, cruel practical joke

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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 (Bhamini), 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:pg76982:18:31
# text = But Bhamini instead of taking Magadha’s part, thought it a good chance to play a cruel practical joke on her.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	Bhamini	Bhamini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	5	mark	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	Magadha	Magadha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	practical	practical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund | Bhamini *not said here* | Magadha's part |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Bhamini | part |  |  |  | a good chance *obj* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme chance=Attribute |
| 3 | **play** | to-infinitive | Bhamini *not said here* | a cruel practical joke |  |  |  | on Magadha | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=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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