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title: The prime minister eager to get rid of him, urged the doctor to put… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The prime minister eager to get rid of him, urged the doctor to put poison in the royal medicine. Who acts: prime minister eager. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 104

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The prime minister eager to get rid of him, urged the doctor to put poison in the royal medicine.

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**Who acts:** prime minister eager · **What happens:** get, urge, put · **To what, where:** doctor, poison, royal medicine

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prime minister eager), 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:pg76982:17:104
# text = The prime minister eager to get rid of him, urged the doctor to put poison in the royal medicine.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	eager	eager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	urged	urge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
16	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | to-infinitive | the prime minister eager *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **urge** | past | the prime minister eager | the doctor |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient |
| 3 | **put** | to-infinitive | the prime minister eager *not said here* | poison |  | the royal medicine |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poison=Theme in medicine=Destination |

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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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