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title: Once upon a time there was a great king of Guzarat, who died leaving… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Once upon a time there was a great king of Guzarat, who died leaving two sons Phulsinh and Rupsinh. Who acts: great king. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 1

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Once upon a time there was a great king of Guzarat, who died leaving two sons Phulsinh and Rupsinh.

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**Who acts:** great king · **What happens:** be, die, leave · **To what, where:** two sons

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great king), 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:pg76982:19:1
# text = Once upon a time there was a great king of Guzarat, who died leaving two sons Phulsinh and Rupsinh.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Guzarat	Guzarat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	Phulsinh	Phulsinh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Rupsinh	Rupsinh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a great king of Guzarat |  |  | there |  | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **die** | past | a great king of Guzarat |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | a great king of Guzarat *not said here* | two sons |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |

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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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