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title: He was greatly addicted to opium, of which he used to drink daily va… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He was greatly addicted to opium, of which he used to drink daily vast quantities from the hand of his favourite queen. Who acts: Mansing. 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.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 2

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He was greatly addicted to opium, of which he used to drink daily vast quantities from the hand of his favourite queen.

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**Who acts:** Mansing · **What happens:** addict, use, drink · **To what, where:** Mansing, vast quantities, hand

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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 (Mansing), 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:pg76982:16:2
# text = He was greatly addicted to opium, of which he used to drink daily vast quantities from the hand of his favourite queen.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	addicted	addict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	opium	opium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	quantities	quantity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **addict** | past · passive |  | Mansing |  |  |  | to opium; greatly *property* | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: subject=Patient to opium=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | past | Mansing |  |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **drink** | to-infinitive | Mansing *not said here* | vast quantities |  | the hand of Mansing's favourite queen |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=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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