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title: “Nay, well beloved, even then the king will not live long enough to… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: “Nay, well beloved, even then the king will not live long enough to make the princess happy. Who acts: king. 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 73

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“Nay, well beloved, even then the king will not live long enough to make the princess happy.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** belov, not live, make · **To what, where:** princess

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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 (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:pg76982:11:73
# text = “Nay, well beloved, even then the king will not live long enough to make the princess happy.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	beloved	belov	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
14	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
15	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belov** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **live** *in a quote* | future | the king |  |  |  | then | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | the princess |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset princess=Product |

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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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