--- title: On hearing this, the king’s minister Motishah told him that he could… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics description: On hearing this, the king’s minister Motishah told him that he could do nothing with only 6,000 men against the 120,000 men led by the emperor. Who acts: minister, King. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, King Mansing of Sirohi., with its dependency tree and the pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/16/30/) [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/) / 30 # Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 30 On hearing this, the king’s minister Motishah told him that he could do nothing with only 6,000 men against the 120,000 men led by the emperor. **Who acts:** minister, King · **What happens:** hear, tell, do, lead · **To what, where:** this, King, nothing, 120,000 men · **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 (minister, King), 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:pg76982:16:30 # text = On hearing this, the king’s minister Motishah told him that he could do nothing with only 6,000 men against the 120,000 men led by the emperor. 1 On on SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 hearing hear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 3 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 Motishah Motishah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 10 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 16 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 15 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 only only ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 6,000 6000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 21 against against ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 120,000 120000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 25 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | gerund | the king's minister *not said here* | this | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the king's minister | | King | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | could | King | nothing | | | | with 6,000 men against the 120,000 men | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | | 4 | **lead** | participle | | the 120,000 men *not said here* | | | | the emperor *obl:agent* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/16/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/16/31/) - ↑ back to [King Mansing of Sirohi.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/16/)