--- title: The emperor replied “The boon is yours; you have but to name it.” — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics description: The emperor replied “The boon is yours; you have but to name it.” Who acts: emperor, boon, you. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, King Mansing of Sirohi., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/16/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/) / [King Mansing of Sirohi.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/16/) / 18 # Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 18 The emperor replied “The boon is yours; you have but to name it.” **Who acts:** emperor, boon, you · **What happens:** reply, be, have, name · **To what, where:** yours, boon · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (emperor, boon, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg76982:16:18 # text = The emperor replied “The boon is yours; you have but to name it.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 boon boon NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 name name VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the emperor | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the boon | yours | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **name** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | boon | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/16/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/16/19/) - ↑ back to [King Mansing of Sirohi.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/16/)