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title: The queen and her lover, fearing that they might themselves be detai… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The queen and her lover, fearing that they might themselves be detained and given over to Nadir Khan, fled from Sind pretending that they were going on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Who acts: queen. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad., with its dependency tr
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 32

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The queen and her lover, fearing that they might themselves be detained and given over to Nadir Khan, fled from Sind pretending that they were going on a pilgrimage to Mecca.

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** fear, detain, give over, flee, pretend, go · **To what, where:** queen, Nadir, Sind, pilgrimage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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:pg76982:12:32
# text = The queen and her lover, fearing that they might themselves be detained and given over to Nadir Khan, fled from Sind pretending that they were going on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	detained	detain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Nadir	Nadir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
21	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Sind	Sind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	ccomp	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	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 | **fear** | gerund | the queen and Bald's lover *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **detain** | might · passive |  | queen |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **give over** | participle |  |  | Nadir |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to nadir=Recipient |
| 4 | **flee** | past | the queen and Bald's lover |  |  | Sind |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sind=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **pretend** | gerund | the queen and Bald's lover *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | past · progressive | queen |  |  | a pilgrimage to Mecca |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on pilgrimage=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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