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title: The noise of the music and the dancing could be heard from King Mans… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The noise of the music and the dancing could be heard from King Mansing’s palace; and all one night, as the king slept, his favourite queen sat up and listened to it. Who acts: king, favourite queen, music. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, King Mansing of Sirohi., wit
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 5

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The noise of the music and the dancing could be heard from King Mansing’s palace; and all one night, as the king slept, his favourite queen sat up and listened to it.

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**Who acts:** king, favourite queen, music · **What happens:** hear, sleep, sit up, listen, noise · **To what, where:** noise, palace

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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, favourite queen, music), 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:pg76982:16:5
# text = The noise of the music and the dancing could be heard from King Mansing’s palace; and all one night, as the king slept, his favourite queen sat up and listened to it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Mansing	Mansing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
16	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | could · passive |  | the noise of the music and the dancing |  | King's palace | night |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from palace=Source |
| 2 | **sleep** | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sit up** | past | King's favourite queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **listen** | participle | King's favourite queen *not said here* |  | noise |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme |
| 5 | **noise** |  | the music and the dancing |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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