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title: They got back their good spirits and instead of cursing poor Magadha… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: They got back their good spirits and instead of cursing poor Magadha, they blessed her from the bottom of their hearts. Who acts: newcomers. 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 70

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They got back their good spirits and instead of cursing poor Magadha, they blessed her from the bottom of their hearts.

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**Who acts:** newcomers · **What happens:** get back, curse, bless · **To what, where:** good spirits, poor Magadha, Magadha, bottom

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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 (newcomers), 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:pg76982:18:70
# text = They got back their good spirits and instead of cursing poor Magadha, they blessed her from the bottom of their hearts.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	10	mark	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	cursing	curse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Magadha	Magadha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	blessed	bless	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get back** | past | newcomers *= newcomer* | newcomers's good spirits |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus |
| 2 | **curse** | gerund | newcomers *= newcomer* *not said here* | poor Magadha |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magadha=Theme |
| 3 | **bless** | past | newcomers *= newcomer* | Magadha |  | the bottom of newcomers's hearts |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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