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title: But neither Shah Hussain nor his daughter had any wish that she shou… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But neither Shah Hussain nor his daughter had any wish that she should become the concubine of a Hindu king. Who acts: Shah Hussain, beauty. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 12

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But neither Shah Hussain nor his daughter had any wish that she should become the concubine of a Hindu king.

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**Who acts:** Shah Hussain, beauty · **What happens:** have, become · **To what, where:** wish, concubine

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shah Hussain, beauty), 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:pg76982:9:12
# text = But neither Shah Hussain nor his daughter had any wish that she should become the concubine of a Hindu king.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Hussain	Hussain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	7	cc	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	concubine	concubine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Hindu	hindu	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Shah Hussain nor merchant's daughter | any wish |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | should | beauty | the concubine of a Hindu king |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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