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title: At last the king lost all patience and boxing his wife’s ears told h… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the king lost all patience and boxing his wife’s ears told her that if she thought so much of the emperor’s camp, she had better go there. Who acts: patience, queen. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, King Mansing of Sirohi., with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 10

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At last the king lost all patience and boxing his wife’s ears told her that if she thought so much of the emperor’s camp, she had better go there.

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**Who acts:** patience, queen · **What happens:** lose, box, tell, think, have, go · **To what, where:** ears, queen, much · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, King Mansing of Sirohi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (patience, 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:pg76982:16:10
# text = At last the king lost all patience and boxing his wife’s ears told her that if she thought so much of the emperor’s camp, she had better go there.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	boxing	box	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
30	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past |  |  |  |  |  | at the last king | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent at king=Eventuality |
| 2 | **box** | gerund | all patience *not said here* | patience's wife's ears |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | all patience |  | queen |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | queen | much of the emperor's camp |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | queen |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive | queen *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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