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title: The maina was dreadfully sorry to hear this new danger and asked tea… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The maina was dreadfully sorry to hear this new danger and asked tearfully whether there was no way by which the king could escape from that death also. Who acts: maina, way, king. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 77

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The maina was dreadfully sorry to hear this new danger and asked tearfully whether there was no way by which the king could escape from that death also.

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**Who acts:** maina, way, king · **What happens:** be, hear, ask, escape · **To what, where:** new danger, death · **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 (maina, way, 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:pg76982:11:77
# text = The maina was dreadfully sorry to hear this new danger and asked tearfully whether there was no way by which the king could escape from that death also.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maina	maina	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	tearfully	tearfully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the maina |  |  |  |  | dreadfully, sorry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | the maina *not said here* | this new danger |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the maina *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tearfully *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **be** | past | no way |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **escape** | could | the king |  |  | that death |  | by no way | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from death=Initial\_Location |

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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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