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title: Feeling death approach, he sent for his chief minister and gave him… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Feeling death approach, he sent for his chief minister and gave him the eight keys of his eight treasure chambers. Who acts: hope. 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 4

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Feeling death approach, he sent for his chief minister and gave him the eight keys of his eight treasure chambers.

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**Who acts:** hope · **What happens:** feel, send, give · **To what, where:** death approach, eight keys, hope

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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 (hope), 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:pg76982:11:4
# text = Feeling death approach, he sent for his chief minister and gave him the eight keys of his eight treasure chambers.
1	Feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	approach	approach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | gerund | hope *not said here* | death approach |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent approach=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past | hope |  |  |  |  | for hope's chief minister | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | past | hope *not said here* | the eight keys of hope's eight treasure chambers | hope |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient 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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