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title: But poor Magadha, who had no dinner to give them, had not the heart… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But poor Magadha, who had no dinner to give them, had not the heart to go to the door and welcome them; so she just stayed inside and prayed to the God Krishna. Who acts: poor Magadha, Magadha. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Magadha and Rupvati., with its dependency
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 50

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But poor Magadha, who had no dinner to give them, had not the heart to go to the door and welcome them; so she just stayed inside and prayed to the God Krishna.

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**Who acts:** poor Magadha, Magadha · **What happens:** have, give, go, welcome, stay, pray · **To what, where:** dinner, heart, alms, door

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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, 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:pg76982:18:50
# text = But poor Magadha, who had no dinner to give them, had not the heart to go to the door and welcome them; so she just stayed inside and prayed to the God Krishna.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Magadha	Magadha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	welcome	welcome	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
30	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Krishna	Krishna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | poor Magadha | no dinner |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | poor Magadha *not said here* | the heart | alms *= alm* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | poor Magadha *not said here* | the heart *not said here* |  | the door |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **welcome** | present | poor Magadha *not said here* | alms *= alm* |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **stay** | past | Magadha |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **pray** | past | Magadha *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the God Krishna | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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