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title: She answered with ready wit: “I can no longer do that, sister, now t… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: She answered with ready wit: “I can no longer do that, sister, now that I am wedded to a mortal.” Who acts: Rukhi. 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 210

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She answered with ready wit: “I can no longer do that, sister, now that I am wedded to a mortal.”

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**Who acts:** Rukhi · **What happens:** answer, wed · **To what, where:** Rukhi · **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 (Rukhi), 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:pg76982:19:210
# text = She answered with ready wit: “I can no longer do that, sister, now that I am wedded to a mortal.”
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	no	no	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	wedded	wed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mortal	mortal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Rukhi |  |  |  |  | with ready wit | tree rules |
| 2 | **wed** *in a quote* | present · passive · do-support |  | Rukhi |  |  | now | to a mortal | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to mortal=Co-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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