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title: King Amrai thought their advice good and freeing the prince, appoint… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: King Amrai thought their advice good and freeing the prince, appointed a wise old man to look after him and to teach him. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 214

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King Amrai thought their advice good and freeing the prince, appointed a wise old man to look after him and to teach him.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** think, free, appoint, look, teach · **To what, where:** prince, wise old man, king

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg76982:10:214
# text = King Amrai thought their advice good and freeing the prince, appointed a wise old man to look after him and to teach him.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Amrai	Amrai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	freeing	free	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **free** | gerund | King *not said here* | the prince |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer prince=Source |
| 3 | **appoint** | past |  | a wise old man |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | after king |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **teach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  | king |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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