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title: The emperor had no wish to quarrel with King Mansing of Sirohi, but… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The emperor had no wish to quarrel with King Mansing of Sirohi, but having made the queen a promise, he had to keep it. Who acts: emperor. 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 21

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The emperor had no wish to quarrel with King Mansing of Sirohi, but having made the queen a promise, he had to keep it.

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**Who acts:** emperor · **What happens:** have, quarrel, make, keep · **To what, where:** wish, promise, queen

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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 (emperor), 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:pg76982:16:21
# text = The emperor had no wish to quarrel with King Mansing of Sirohi, but having made the queen a promise, he had to keep it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Mansing	Mansing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Sirohi	Sirohi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	aux	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the emperor | no wish |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient |
| 2 | **quarrel** | to-infinitive | the emperor *not said here* | no wish *not said here* |  |  |  | with King Mansing of Sirohi | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mansing=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **make** | gerund · perfect | the emperor *not said here* | a promise | the queen |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset queen=Beneficiary promise=Product |
| 4 | **have** | past | Emperor |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Emperor *not said here* | promise |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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