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title: At first Mansing paid no heed to his queen’s chatter; but at last he… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: At first Mansing paid no heed to his queen’s chatter; but at last he got cross and told her not to mention in his presence the name of the Mleccha emperor. Who acts: Mansing, queen. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, King Mansing of Sirohi., with its dependency tree and
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 8

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At first Mansing paid no heed to his queen’s chatter; but at last he got cross and told her not to mention in his presence the name of the Mleccha emperor.

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**Who acts:** Mansing, queen · **What happens:** pay, get, tell, not mention, chatter, name · **To what, where:** heed, last, queen, name, presence, Mleccha emperor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, queen), 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:pg76982:16:8
# text = At first Mansing paid no heed to his queen’s chatter; but at last he got cross and told her not to mention in his presence the name of the Mleccha emperor.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	obl	_	_
3	Mansing	Mansing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	chatter	chatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	mention	mention	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Mleccha	Mleccha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **pay** | past | Mansing | no heed |  |  |  | to Mansing's queen's chatter | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset |
| 2 | **get** | past | Mansing |  |  | last |  | cross *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Mansing *not said here* |  | queen |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **mention** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Mansing *not said here* | the name of the Mleccha emperor |  | Mansing's presence |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic |
| 5 | **chatter** |  | Mansing's queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom chatter «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **name** |  |  | the Mleccha emperor |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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