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title: In course of time the queen bore him a son and every day he used to… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: In course of time the queen bore him a son and every day he used to bring the little boy into the minister’s room to shew him what a good and true servant he had once had. Who acts: queen, king. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with its dependency tre
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 102

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In course of time the queen bore him a son and every day he used to bring the little boy into the minister’s room to shew him what a good and true servant he had once had.

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**Who acts:** queen, king · **What happens:** bear, use, bring, shew, have · **To what, where:** son, king, little boy, room, good servant

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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 (queen, 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:pg76982:11:102
# text = In course of time the queen bore him a son and every day he used to bring the little boy into the minister’s room to shew him what a good and true servant he had once had.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	shew	shew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	38	advmod	_	_
38	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past | the queen | a son | king |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary son=Patient |
| 2 | **use** | past | king |  |  |  | day |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | the little boy |  | the minister's room |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme into room=Destination |
| 4 | **shew** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | king |  |  |  | what  a good servant *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past · perfect | king | a good servant *not said here* |  |  |  | once *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=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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