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title: The old statesman fell at his young master’s feet and telling him wi… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The old statesman fell at his young master’s feet and telling him with many tears the whole story handed him the eighth key. Who acts: old statesman, whole story. 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 cl
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 13

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The old statesman fell at his young master’s feet and telling him with many tears the whole story handed him the eighth key.

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**Who acts:** old statesman, whole story · **What happens:** fall, tell, hand · **To what, where:** feet, statesman, eighth key · **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 (old statesman, whole story), 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:pg76982:11:13
# text = The old statesman fell at his young master’s feet and telling him with many tears the whole story handed him the eighth key.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	statesman	statesman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	eighth	eighth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the old statesman |  |  | statesman's young master's feet |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | statesman |  |  | with many tears | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **hand** | past | the whole story | the eighth key | statesman |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination key=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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