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title: He then swung on his turban to and fro until he was able to swing in… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He then swung on his turban to and fro until he was able to swing into one of the windows of the upper storey of the palace. Who acts: Mansing. 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 51

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He then swung on his turban to and fro until he was able to swing into one of the windows of the upper storey of the palace.

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**Who acts:** Mansing · **What happens:** swing, fro, be · **To what, where:** turban

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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 (Mansing), 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:pg76982:16:51
# text = He then swung on his turban to and fro until he was able to swing into one of the windows of the upper storey of the palace.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	swung	swing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	turban	turban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	swing	swing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	storey	storey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swing** | past | Mansing |  |  | Mansing's turban | then |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on turban=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fro** | infinitive | Mansing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Mansing |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **swing** | to-infinitive | Mansing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into one of the windows of the upper storey of the palace | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into one=Trajectory |

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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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