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title: In the middle room was poor Magadha, praying with all her might to t… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle room was poor Magadha, praying with all her might to the God Krishna to help her. Who acts: middle room, God. 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 61

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In the middle room was poor Magadha, praying with all her might to the God Krishna to help her.

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**Who acts:** middle room, God · **What happens:** be, pray, help · **To what, where:** poor Magadha, Magadha

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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 (middle room, God), 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:pg76982:18:61
# text = In the middle room was poor Magadha, praying with all her might to the God Krishna to help her.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Magadha	Magadha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	praying	pray	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	Krishna	Krishna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the middle room |  |  | poor Magadha |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pray** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with Magadha | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | the God |  | Magadha |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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