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title: One day the latter in open durbar challenged Rukhi to go back inside… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: One day the latter in open durbar challenged Rukhi to go back inside the pomegranate. Who acts: latter. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 208

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One day the latter in open durbar challenged Rukhi to go back inside the pomegranate.

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**Who acts:** latter · **What happens:** challenge, go back · **To what, where:** Rukhi, open durbar, pomegranate

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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 (latter), 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:pg76982:19:208
# text = One day the latter in open durbar challenged Rukhi to go back inside the pomegranate.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	durbar	durbar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
8	challenged	challenge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Rukhi	Rukhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **challenge** | past | the latter | Rukhi |  | open durbar | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go back** | to-infinitive | the latter *not said here* |  |  | the pomegranate |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

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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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