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title: The minister learning of the death of the little prince prayed so ea… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The minister learning of the death of the little prince prayed so earnestly to God to bring him back to life that his prayer was granted. Who acts: minister learning, little prince, learning. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with its dependency tree a
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 112

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The minister learning of the death of the little prince prayed so earnestly to God to bring him back to life that his prayer was granted.

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**Who acts:** minister learning, little prince, learning · **What happens:** pray, bring back, grant, die · **To what, where:** God, learning, life, prayer

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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 (minister learning, little prince, learning), 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:pg76982:11:112
# text = The minister learning of the death of the little prince prayed so earnestly to God to bring him back to life that his prayer was granted.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	earnestly	earnestly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | past | the minister learning of the death of the little prince |  | God |  |  | earnestly *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **bring back** | to-infinitive | the minister learning of the death of the little prince *not said here* | learning |  | life |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to life=Destination |
| 3 | **grant** | past · passive |  | learning's prayer |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **die** |  | the little prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **pray** |  | learning |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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