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title: In the meantime the indignant Nadir Khan in vain looked all over his… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: In the meantime the indignant Nadir Khan in vain looked all over his kingdom for his missing queen and servant. Who acts: indignant Nadir Khan. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 33

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In the meantime the indignant Nadir Khan in vain looked all over his kingdom for his missing queen and servant.

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**Who acts:** indignant Nadir Khan · **What happens:** look · **To what, where:** kingdom, meantime

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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 (indignant Nadir Khan), 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:pg76982:12:33
# text = In the meantime the indignant Nadir Khan in vain looked all over his kingdom for his missing queen and servant.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	indignant	indignant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Nadir	Nadir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	vain	vain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the indignant Nadir Khan in vain | Khan's kingdom |  | the meantime |  | for Khan's missing queen and servant | tree rules |

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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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