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title: As the prince stepped forward, the prime-minister gave him the brass… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: As the prince stepped forward, the prime-minister gave him the brass plate on which was engraved his father’s will. Who acts: prime minister. 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 c
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 286

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As the prince stepped forward, the prime-minister gave him the brass plate on which was engraved his father’s will.

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**Who acts:** prime minister · **What happens:** step forward, give, engrave · **To what, where:** prince, father, brass plate

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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 (prime minister), 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:pg76982:10:286
# text = As the prince stepped forward, the prime-minister gave him the brass plate on which was engraved his father’s will.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	engraved	engrave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step forward** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as the prince; forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | the prime minister |  | prince |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **engrave** | past · passive |  | prince's father |  | the brass plate |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: father=Theme on which=Destination |

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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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