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title: “Dear Parrot,” said the maina, “if the king is not poisoned by the p… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: “Dear Parrot,” said the maina, “if the king is not poisoned by the plate, will he and the princess not even then marry and live happy together ever afterwards?” Who acts: Dear Parrot, king. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with its dependency tree and
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 72

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“Dear Parrot,” said the maina, “if the king is not poisoned by the plate, will he and the princess not even then marry and live happy together ever afterwards?”

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**Who acts:** Dear Parrot, king · **What happens:** say, not poison, not marry, live · **To what, where:** king · **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 (Dear Parrot, 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:pg76982:11:72
# text = “Dear Parrot,” said the maina, “if the king is not poisoned by the plate, will he and the princess not even then marry and live happy together ever afterwards?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	maina	maina	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
32	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	together	together	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	35	advmod	_	_
35	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Dear Parrot |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **poison** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · passive |  | the king |  |  |  | by the plate | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **marry** *in a quote* | future | king |  |  |  | then |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **live** *in a quote* | infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  | ever | afterwards, happy, together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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