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title: The king thought long and deeply where his duty lay; at last he felt… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The king thought long and deeply where his duty lay; at last he felt that he owed more to the faithful minister who had saved his life three times than to his son. Who acts: king, duty. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with its dependency tree and the
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 108

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The king thought long and deeply where his duty lay; at last he felt that he owed more to the faithful minister who had saved his life three times than to his son.

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**Who acts:** king, duty · **What happens:** think, lie, feel, owe, save · **To what, where:** last, more, faithful minister

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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 (king, duty), 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:pg76982:11:108
# text = The king thought long and deeply where his duty lay; at last he felt that he owed more to the faithful minister who had saved his life three times than to his son.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	owed	owe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	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 | the king |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lie** | past | king's duty |  |  |  |  | deeply *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **feel** | past | king |  |  | last |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location |
| 4 | **owe** | past | king | more |  |  |  | to the faithful minister *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent more=Theme to minister=Goal |
| 5 | **save** | past · perfect · passive |  | the faithful minister |  |  | time | than king's son; king's life *obj* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary life=Theme |

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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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