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title: The old couple preferring riches to immortality sold the apple to th… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The old couple preferring riches to immortality sold the apple to the regent for a great price. Who acts: old couple. 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 87

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The old couple preferring riches to immortality sold the apple to the regent for a great price.

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**Who acts:** old couple · **What happens:** prefer, sell · **To what, where:** riches, apple, regent

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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 (old couple), 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:pg76982:7:87
# text = The old couple preferring riches to immortality sold the apple to the regent for a great price.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	preferring	prefer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	immortality	immortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	regent	regent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prefer** | gerund | the old couple *not said here* | riches |  |  |  | to immortality | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rich=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sell** | past | the old couple | the apple | the regent |  |  | for a great price | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent apple=Theme to regent=Recipient for price=Asset |

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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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