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title: But the king’s guards before going home had filled it with fresh woo… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But the king’s guards before going home had filled it with fresh wood and it was burning fiercely. Who acts: guards, turban. 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 44

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But the king’s guards before going home had filled it with fresh wood and it was burning fiercely.

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**Who acts:** guards, turban · **What happens:** go, fill, burn · **To what, where:** guards

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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 (guards, turban), 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:pg76982:16:44
# text = But the king’s guards before going home had filled it with fresh wood and it was burning fiercely.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
19	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund | the king's guards *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** | past · perfect · passive |  | the king's guards |  |  |  | with fresh wood; turban *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **burn** | past · progressive | turban |  |  |  |  | fiercely *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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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