--- title: The King had given order that anyone who had a petition to make shou… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics description: The King had given order that anyone who had a petition to make should appear at the great Mosque in Delhi, on a Friday morning, wearing a coloured garment, and his petition would be heard forthwith. Who acts: King, anyone. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-peo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/2/167/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian tales of the great ones among m…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/) / [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/2/) / 167 # Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 167 The King had given order that anyone who had a petition to make should appear at the great Mosque in Delhi, on a Friday morning, wearing a coloured garment, and his petition would be heard forthwith. **Who acts:** King, anyone · **What happens:** give, have, make, appear, wear, hear · **To what, where:** order, petition, great Mosque, coloured garment This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg69647:2:168 # text = The King had given order that anyone who had a petition to make should appear at the great Mosque in Delhi, on a Friday morning, wearing a coloured garment, and his petition would be heard forthwith. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 7 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 nsubj _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 petition petition NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl _ _ 14 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 appear appear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 Mosque Mosque PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Delhi Delhi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 wearing wear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 garment garment NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 petition petition NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 36 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 39 forthwith forthwith ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past · perfect | the King | order | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | | 2 | **have** | past | | a petition | | | | who *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petition=Patient | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | | a petition *not said here* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **appear** | should | anyone | | | the great Mosque in Delhi | morning | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at mosque=Location | | 5 | **wear** | gerund | anyone *not said here* | a coloured garment | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent garment=Source | | 6 | **hear** | would · passive | | King's petition | | | | forthwith *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | | 7 | **petition** | | King | | | | | | nom petition «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Text:** «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Project Gutenberg book 69647 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/2/166/) - next →: [sentence 168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/2/168/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/2/)