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title: Like a true ascetic he rejected her odious advances with the icy dis… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Like a true ascetic he rejected her odious advances with the icy disdain of Saint Joseph. Who acts: Farid, wife. 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 40

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Like a true ascetic he rejected her odious advances with the icy disdain of Saint Joseph.

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**Who acts:** Farid, wife · **What happens:** reject, advance, disdain · **To what, where:** odious advances, Saint

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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 (Farid, wife), 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:pg76982:7:40
# text = Like a true ascetic he rejected her odious advances with the icy disdain of Saint Joseph.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rejected	reject	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	odious	odious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	advances	advance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	disdain	disdain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **reject** | past | Farid | wife's odious advances |  |  |  | like a true ascetic; with the icy disdain of Saint | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advance=Theme |
| 2 | **advance** |  | wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom advance «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 3 | **disdain** |  |  | Saint |  |  |  |  | nom disdain «feeling transitive»: of=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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