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title: Having done this for several days she invited 108 Brahmans to dine a… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Having done this for several days she invited 108 Brahmans to dine at her house. Who acts: Magadha, 108 Brahmans. 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 46

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Having done this for several days she invited 108 Brahmans to dine at her house.

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**Who acts:** Magadha, 108 Brahmans · **What happens:** have, do, invite, dine · **To what, where:** this, 108 Brahmans, house

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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, 108 Brahmans), 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:pg76982:18:46
# text = Having done this for several days she invited 108 Brahmans to dine at her house.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	invited	invite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	108	108	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	Brahmans	Brahman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	dine	dine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  | this |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **invite** | past | Magadha | 108 Brahmans |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent brahman=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **dine** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | 108 Brahmans *not said here* |  |  | Magadha's house |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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