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title: The guests thought this a very odd “dakshina” but when they opened t… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The guests thought this a very odd “dakshina” but when they opened the leaves they found them full of diamonds and pearls and rubies. Who acts: guests. 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 72

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The guests thought this a very odd “dakshina” but when they opened the leaves they found them full of diamonds and pearls and rubies.

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**Who acts:** guests · **What happens:** think, open, find · **To what, where:** this, leaves

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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 (guests), 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:pg76982:18:72
# text = The guests thought this a very odd “dakshina” but when they opened the leaves they found them full of diamonds and pearls and rubies.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	dakshina	dakshina	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the guests | this |  |  |  | a odd dakshina *xcomp* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | past | guests *= guest* | the leaves |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | guests *= guest* | leaves *= leaf* |  |  |  | full *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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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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