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title: All night long the emperor and his nobles drank deep and revelled, w… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: All night long the emperor and his nobles drank deep and revelled, while beautiful dancing girls sang to them lascivious songs. Who acts: emperor, beautiful dancing girls. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, King Mansing of Sirohi., with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 4

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All night long the emperor and his nobles drank deep and revelled, while beautiful dancing girls sang to them lascivious songs.

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**Who acts:** emperor, beautiful dancing girls · **What happens:** drink, revell, sing · **To what, where:** lascivious songs, nobles

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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, beautiful dancing girls), 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:pg76982:16:4
# text = All night long the emperor and his nobles drank deep and revelled, while beautiful dancing girls sang to them lascivious songs.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	revelled	revell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	lascivious	lascivious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | the emperor and Emperor's nobles |  |  |  |  | deep, long *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **revell** | participle | the emperor and Emperor's nobles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | beautiful dancing girls | lascivious songs | nobles *= noble* |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to they=Recipient |

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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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