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title: In a great rage the young king sent for the chief minister and deman… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: In a great rage the young king sent for the chief minister and demanded on pain of instant death the eighth key. 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 12

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In a great rage the young king sent for the chief minister and demanded on pain of instant death the eighth key.

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**What happens:** send, demand, pain · **To what, where:** young king, pain, great rage, instant death

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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: 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:pg76982:11:12
# text = In a great rage the young king sent for the chief minister and demanded on pain of instant death the eighth key.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	demanded	demand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	instant	instant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	eighth	eighth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | participle |  | the young king *not said here* |  |  |  | for the chief minister | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | participle |  |  |  | pain of instant death  the eighth key |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pain** |  |  | instant death  the eighth key |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state 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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