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title: They not unnaturally declined the challenge, whereupon the Murshid m… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: They not unnaturally declined the challenge, whereupon the Murshid mocked them as unworthy impostors. Who acts: austerities, Murshid. 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 54

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They not unnaturally declined the challenge, whereupon the Murshid mocked them as unworthy impostors.

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**Who acts:** austerities, Murshid · **What happens:** not decline, mock · **To what, where:** challenge, austerities

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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 (austerities, Murshid), 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:pg76982:7:54
# text = They not unnaturally declined the challenge, whereupon the Murshid mocked them as unworthy impostors.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	unnaturally	unnaturally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	declined	decline	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	challenge	challenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Murshid	Murshid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	mocked	mock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	unworthy	unworthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	impostors	impostor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **decline** | past | austerities *= austerity* | the challenge |  |  |  | unnaturally *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme |
| 2 | **mock** | past | the Murshid | austerities *= austerity* |  |  |  | as unworthy impostors; whereupon *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme as impostor=Attribute |

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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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