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title: That night the king and Motishah disguised as mendicants, but with s… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: That night the king and Motishah disguised as mendicants, but with swords and shields hidden beneath their yellow robes sallied forth to the queen’s palace. Who acts: king, swords. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, King Mansing of Sirohi., with its dependency tree and 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 39

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That night the king and Motishah disguised as mendicants, but with swords and shields hidden beneath their yellow robes sallied forth to the queen’s palace.

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**Who acts:** king, swords · **What happens:** disguise, hide, sally · **To what, where:** swords, yellow robes

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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, swords), 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:pg76982:16:39
# text = That night the king and Motishah disguised as mendicants, but with swords and shields hidden beneath their yellow robes sallied forth to the queen’s palace.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Motishah	Motishah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	disguised	disguise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mendicants	mendicant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	shields	shield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
17	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	sallied	sally	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disguise** | past | the king and Motishah |  |  |  | night | as mendicants | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hide** | participle |  | swords and shields *not said here* |  | swords's yellow robes |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath robe=Location |
| 3 | **sally** | past | swords and shields |  |  |  |  | to the queen's palace; forth *property* | tree rules |

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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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