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title: After the wedding ceremonies were over, the king and queen tired out… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: After the wedding ceremonies were over, the king and queen tired out with the fatigues of the day went to rest; and so sleepy were they that directly their heads touched their pillows, they fell asleep. Who acts: wedding ceremonies, fatigues. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. K
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 89

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After the wedding ceremonies were over, the king and queen tired out with the fatigues of the day went to rest; and so sleepy were they that directly their heads touched their pillows, they fell asleep.

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**Who acts:** wedding ceremonies, fatigues · **What happens:** be, go, rest, fall, fatigue · **To what, where:** day

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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 (wedding ceremonies, fatigues), 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:pg76982:11:89
# text = After the wedding ceremonies were over, the king and queen tired out with the fatigues of the day went to rest; and so sleepy were they that directly their heads touched their pillows, they fell asleep.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fatigues	fatigue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
29	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
30	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	pillows	pillow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
39	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the wedding ceremonies |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | the fatigues of the day |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive | the fatigues of the day *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | fatigues *= fatigue* |  |  |  |  | fatigues's heads *nsubj*; fatigues's pillows *obj*; directly, touch *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fall** | past | fatigues *= fatigue* |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **fatigue** |  |  | the day |  |  |  |  | nom fatigue «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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