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title: No sooner had Mansing reached safety than poor Motishah fainted and… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: No sooner had Mansing reached safety than poor Motishah fainted and falling into the trench was burnt to ashes. Who acts: Mansing, poor Motishah, falling. 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 cl
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 60

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No sooner had Mansing reached safety than poor Motishah fainted and falling into the trench was burnt to ashes.

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**Who acts:** Mansing, poor Motishah, falling · **What happens:** have, reach, faint, fall, burnt · **To what, where:** safety, trench

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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, poor Motishah, falling), 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:pg76982:16:60
# text = No sooner had Mansing reached safety than poor Motishah fainted and falling into the trench was burnt to ashes.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Mansing	Mansing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Motishah	Motishah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fainted	faint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	csubj:pass	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	trench	trench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | past | Mansing | safety |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent safety=Theme |
| 3 | **faint** | past | poor Motishah |  |  |  |  |  | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | into the trench *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into trench=Result |
| 5 | **burnt** | past · passive | falling |  |  |  |  | to ashes | 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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