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title: The minister told the king that he was a merchant and after giving t… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The minister told the king that he was a merchant and after giving the king splendid gifts stayed in the country until he had sold all his merchandise. Who acts: minister. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 25

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The minister told the king that he was a merchant and after giving the king splendid gifts stayed in the country until he had sold all his merchandise.

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**Who acts:** minister · **What happens:** tell, be, give, stay, sell · **To what, where:** king, merchant, splendid gifts, country, merchandise · **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 (minister), 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:pg76982:11:25
# text = The minister told the king that he was a merchant and after giving the king splendid gifts stayed in the country until he had sold all his merchandise.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the minister |  | the king |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | minister | a merchant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | gerund |  | splendid gifts | the king |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient gift=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** | past | the minister *not said here* |  |  | the country |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 5 | **sell** | past · perfect | minister | minister's merchandise |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchandise=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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