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title: When the police guard reached Lahore they out of curiosity opened th… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: When the police guard reached Lahore they out of curiosity opened the box, in order to see what the head looked like. Who acts: police guard, ’s, head. 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 127

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When the police guard reached Lahore they out of curiosity opened the box, in order to see what the head looked like.

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**Who acts:** police guard, ’s, head · **What happens:** reach, open, see, look like · **To what, where:** Lahore, box · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (police guard, ’s, head), 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:pg76982:13:127
# text = When the police guard reached Lahore they out of curiosity opened the box, in order to see what the head looked like.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	Lahore	Lahore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	18	mark	_	_
16	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	fixed	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | the police guard | Lahore |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lahore=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | past | ’s *= '* | the box |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | ’s *= '* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **look like** | past | the head |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Attribute |

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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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