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title: Sad to relate, his pious wishes were brought to nought by the greed… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Sad to relate, his pious wishes were brought to nought by the greed of the townspeople. Who acts: greed, Nor. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, A Sind Saint., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 102

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Sad to relate, his pious wishes were brought to nought by the greed of the townspeople.

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**Who acts:** greed, Nor · **What happens:** relate, bring, wish · **To what, where:** pious wishes, nought

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, A Sind Saint.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greed, Nor), 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:pg76982:7:102
# text = Sad to relate, his pious wishes were brought to nought by the greed of the townspeople.
1	Sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	relate	relate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	nought	nought	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	9	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	greed	greed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	townspeople	townspeople	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past · passive | the greed of the townspeople | Nor's pious wishes |  | nought |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to nought=Destination |
| 3 | **wish** |  | Nor |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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