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title: “There is no worse sin than to send away Brahmans hungry from your d… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: “There is no worse sin than to send away Brahmans hungry from your door.” Who acts: worse sin. 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 63

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“There is no worse sin than to send away Brahmans hungry from your door.”

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**Who acts:** worse sin · **What happens:** be, send away · **To what, where:** Brahmans

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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 (worse sin), 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:pg76982:18:63
# text = “There is no worse sin than to send away Brahmans hungry from your door.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
10	away	away	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	Brahmans	Brahman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | no worse sin |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **send away** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | no worse sin *not said here* | Brahmans |  |  |  | hungry *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brahman=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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