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title: They were both very angry at seeing the minister in their room and t… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: They were both very angry at seeing the minister in their room and the king called to his guards to seize the minister and hang him early next morning from the battlements of the palace. Who acts: queens. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with its depe
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 94

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They were both very angry at seeing the minister in their room and the king called to his guards to seize the minister and hang him early next morning from the battlements of the palace.

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**Who acts:** queens · **What happens:** be, see, call, seize, hang · **To what, where:** minister, room, king, guards, battlements · **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 (queens), 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:pg76982:11:94
# text = They were both very angry at seeing the minister in their room and the king called to his guards to seize the minister and hang him early next morning from the battlements of the palace.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	both	both	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
28	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	battlements	battlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | queens *= queen* |  |  |  |  | angry, both *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | queens *= queen* *not said here* | the minister |  | queens's room and the king |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer minister=Stimulus |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | the king *not said here* | king's guards |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to guard=Recipient |
| 4 | **seize** | to-infinitive |  | the minister |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Theme |
| 5 | **hang** | infinitive |  | minister |  | the battlements of the palace | morning | early *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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