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title: He was pleased beyond measure; and he felt deeply grateful to the fa… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He was pleased beyond measure; and he felt deeply grateful to the faithful minister, who had discharged his trust so well and while keeping the people happy had made their king rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Who acts: prince, faithful minister. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 10

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He was pleased beyond measure; and he felt deeply grateful to the faithful minister, who had discharged his trust so well and while keeping the people happy had made their king rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

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**Who acts:** prince, faithful minister · **What happens:** be, feel, discharge, keep, make, trust · **To what, where:** trust, people, king, avarice

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, faithful 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:pg76982:11:10
# text = He was pleased beyond measure; and he felt deeply grateful to the faithful minister, who had discharged his trust so well and while keeping the people happy had made their king rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	discharged	discharge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
35	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	avarice	avarice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | prince |  |  |  |  | beyond measure; pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | past | prince |  |  |  |  | grateful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **discharge** | past · perfect | the faithful minister | prince's trust |  |  |  | well *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | gerund |  | the people |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past · perfect | prince *not said here* | people's king |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset king=Product |
| 6 | **trust** |  | prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **dream** |  |  | avarice |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=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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