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title: When the prince came of age, he succeeded to a rich and prosperous k… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: When the prince came of age, he succeeded to a rich and prosperous kingdom and the minister handed over to him, just as the old king had desired, seven out of the eight keys. Who acts: prince, minister, old king. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 8

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When the prince came of age, he succeeded to a rich and prosperous kingdom and the minister handed over to him, just as the old king had desired, seven out of the eight keys.

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**Who acts:** prince, minister, old king · **What happens:** come, succeed, hand over, desire · **To what, where:** prince, seven

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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 (prince, minister, old 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:pg76982:11:8
# text = When the prince came of age, he succeeded to a rich and prosperous kingdom and the minister handed over to him, just as the old king had desired, seven out of the eight keys.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the prince |  |  |  | of age |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of age=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **succeed** | past | prince |  |  |  |  | to a rich kingdom | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hand over** | participle | the minister |  | prince |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination |
| 4 | **desire** | past · perfect | the old king | seven out the eight keys |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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