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title: He had a charming and virtuous wife called Ahalya. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He had a charming and virtuous wife called Ahalya. Who acts: rishi. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 91

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He had a charming and virtuous wife called Ahalya.

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**Who acts:** rishi · **What happens:** have, call · **To what, where:** charming, virtuous wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rishi), 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:pg76982:20:91
# text = He had a charming and virtuous wife called Ahalya.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	virtuous	virtuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	Ahalya	Ahalya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | rishi | a charming and virtuous wife |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charming=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | virtuous wife *not said here* |  |  |  | Ahalya *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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