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title: At last she had to send the Brahmans away as hungry and cross as cou… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: At last she had to send the Brahmans away as hungry and cross as could be. Who acts: dinner. 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 90

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At last she had to send the Brahmans away as hungry and cross as could be.

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**Who acts:** dinner · **What happens:** have, send away · **To what, where:** last, 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 (dinner), 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:pg76982:18:90
# text = At last she had to send the Brahmans away as hungry and cross as could be.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Brahmans	Brahman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | dinner |  |  | last |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **send away** | to-infinitive | dinner *not said here* | the Brahmans |  |  |  | as hungry; away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent brahman=Theme as hungry=Attribute |

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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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