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title: The governor put his head in a wooden box and sealing it sent it in… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The governor put his head in a wooden box and sealing it sent it in charge of a police guard to the emperor’s camp. Who acts: governor, sealing. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 126

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The governor put his head in a wooden box and sealing it sent it in charge of a police guard to the emperor’s camp.

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**Who acts:** governor, sealing · **What happens:** put, seal, send, charge · **To what, where:** head, wooden box, charge, police guard

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (governor, sealing), 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:pg76982:13:126
# text = The governor put his head in a wooden box and sealing it sent it in charge of a police guard to the emperor’s camp.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	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	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	sealing	seal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	police	police	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | the governor | Governor's head |  | a wooden box |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in box=Destination |
| 2 | **seal** | gerund |  | head |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **send** | past | sealing | head |  | charge of a police guard |  | to the emperor's camp | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in charge=Destination |
| 4 | **charge** |  |  | a police guard |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act 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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