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title: When they had assembled, he told them that the emperor had seduced h… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: When they had assembled, he told them that the emperor had seduced his queen and then like a coward had run away to Delhi. Who acts: King. 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 27

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When they had assembled, he told them that the emperor had seduced his queen and then like a coward had run away to Delhi.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** assemble, tell, seduce, run away · **To what, where:** chiefs, emperor · **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 (King), 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:pg76982:16:27
# text = When they had assembled, he told them that the emperor had seduced his queen and then like a coward had run away to Delhi.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	seduced	seduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	coward	coward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | past · perfect · passive |  | chiefs *= chief* |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | King |  | chiefs *= chief* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **seduce** | past · perfect · passive |  | the emperor |  |  |  | King's queen *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **run away** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  | then | like a coward; Delhi *obl:agent*; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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