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title: Rupsinh, who felt very cross with the anchorite for stealing the que… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Rupsinh, who felt very cross with the anchorite for stealing the queen of the Anardes, was delighted and said “Yes, give him a beating, the sounder the better.” Who acts: Rupsinh. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., with its depende
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 192

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Rupsinh, who felt very cross with the anchorite for stealing the queen of the Anardes, was delighted and said “Yes, give him a beating, the sounder the better.”

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**Who acts:** Rupsinh · **What happens:** feel, steal, be, say, give · **To what, where:** queen, beating, Rupsinh · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rupsinh), 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:pg76982:19:192
# text = Rupsinh, who felt very cross with the anchorite for stealing the queen of the Anardes, was delighted and said “Yes, give him a beating, the sounder the better.”
1	Rupsinh	Rupsinh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	anchorite	anchorite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Anardes	Anarde	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	25	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sounder	sounder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Rupsinh |  |  |  |  | cross *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **steal** | gerund | Rupsinh *not said here* | the queen of the Anardes |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location queen=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Rupsinh |  |  |  |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Rupsinh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a beating | Rupsinh |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient beating=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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