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title: From her they learnt that the emperor fearing a rescue, had dug roun… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: From her they learnt that the emperor fearing a rescue, had dug round the queen’s palace no less than seven trenches. Who acts: warriors, 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 36

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From her they learnt that the emperor fearing a rescue, had dug round the queen’s palace no less than seven trenches.

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**Who acts:** warriors, emperor · **What happens:** learn, fear, dig · **To what, where:** rescue, seven trenches

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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 (warriors, 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:pg76982:16:36
# text = From her they learnt that the emperor fearing a rescue, had dug round the queen’s palace no less than seven trenches.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	learnt	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	round	round	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	no	no	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	22	advmod	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	trenches	trench	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	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 | **learn** | past | warriors *= warrior* |  |  |  |  | from Delhi | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from she=Source |
| 2 | **fear** | gerund | the emperor | a rescue |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rescue=Stimulus |
| 3 | **dig** | past · perfect | warriors *= warrior* *not said here* | seven trenches |  |  |  | round the queen's palace | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent trench=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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