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title: Poor Magadha was far too trusting to guess Bhamini’s wickedness and… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Poor Magadha was far too trusting to guess Bhamini’s wickedness and went home very pleased with her new knowledge. Who acts: Poor Magadha. 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 42

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Poor Magadha was far too trusting to guess Bhamini’s wickedness and went home very pleased with her new knowledge.

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**Who acts:** Poor Magadha · **What happens:** trust, guess, go · **To what, where:** wickedness

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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 (Poor Magadha), 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:pg76982:18:42
# text = Poor Magadha was far too trusting to guess Bhamini’s wickedness and went home very pleased with her new knowledge.
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Magadha	Magadha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	trusting	trust	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	Bhamini	Bhamini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	home	home	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | past · progressive | Poor Magadha |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **guess** | to-infinitive | Poor Magadha *not said here* | Bhamini's wickedness |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wickedness=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | Poor Magadha *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Magadha's new knowledge; home, pleased *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with knowledge=Beneficiary |

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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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