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description: She agreed that the king had acted rightly, even though his act would but for God’s mercy, have cost her her son. Who acts: prayer, king. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 114

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She agreed that the king had acted rightly, even though his act would but for God’s mercy, have cost her her son.

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**Who acts:** prayer, king · **What happens:** agree, act, cost · **To what, where:** son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (prayer, 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:pg76982:11:114
# text = She agreed that the king had acted rightly, even though his act would but for God’s mercy, have cost her her son.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	acted	act	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
8	rightly	rightly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	cost	cost	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | prayer |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **act** | past · perfect | the king |  |  |  |  | rightly *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cost** | would · perfect |  |  | prayer's son |  |  | for God's mercy | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme son=Value |
| 4 | **act** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication 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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