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title: After the wedding ceremony, the king and the princess will be so tir… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: After the wedding ceremony, the king and the princess will be so tired that directly their heads touch the pillow, they will go off to sleep. Who acts: king, heads, parrot. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 74

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After the wedding ceremony, the king and the princess will be so tired that directly their heads touch the pillow, they will go off to sleep.

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**Who acts:** king, heads, parrot · **What happens:** be, touch, go off · **To what, where:** pillow

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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, heads, parrot), 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:pg76982:11:74
# text = After the wedding ceremony, the king and the princess will be so tired that directly their heads touch the pillow, they will go off to sleep.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | the king and the princess |  |  |  | after the wedding ceremony | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **touch** | present | parrot's heads | the pillow |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pillow=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **go off** | future | parrot |  |  |  |  | to sleep | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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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