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description: After she had invited them, she suddenly remembered that she had no money with which to buy them food, still less to give them alms afterwards. Who acts: 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 eve
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 47

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After she had invited them, she suddenly remembered that she had no money with which to buy them food, still less to give them alms afterwards.

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**Who acts:** Magadha · **What happens:** invite, remember, have, buy, give · **To what, where:** Magadha, less, money, displeasure, alms · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg76982:18:47
# text = After she had invited them, she suddenly remembered that she had no money with which to buy them food, still less to give them alms afterwards.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	alms	alm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** | past · perfect · passive |  | Magadha |  |  |  | displeasure *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **remember** | past | Magadha | less |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | Magadha | no money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 4 | **buy** | to-infinitive | Magadha *not said here* | displeasure |  |  |  | with no money; food *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary food=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | alms | displeasure |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient alm=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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