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title: Nadir Khan summoned his army and marching to the frontier, demanded… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Nadir Khan summoned his army and marching to the frontier, demanded the surrender of the queen and her lover, the diamond and the manuscript. Who acts: Nadir. 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 cl
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 35

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Nadir Khan summoned his army and marching to the frontier, demanded the surrender of the queen and her lover, the diamond and the manuscript.

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**Who acts:** Nadir · **What happens:** summon, march, demand, surrender · **To what, where:** army, surrender, queen

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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 (Nadir), 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:pg76982:12:35
# text = Nadir Khan summoned his army and marching to the frontier, demanded the surrender of the queen and her lover, the diamond and the manuscript.
1	Nadir	Nadir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	marching	march	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	frontier	frontier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	surrender	surrender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	manuscript	manuscript	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** | past | Nadir | Nadir's army |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Recipient |
| 2 | **march** | gerund | Nadir *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the frontier *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to frontier=Result |
| 3 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | Nadir *not said here* | the surrender of the queen and vain's lover |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme surrender=Precondition |
| 4 | **surrender** |  |  | the queen and vain's lover |  |  |  |  | nom surrender «feeling 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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