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title: Instead of the five flowers balancing the Princess, her scale clung… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead of the five flowers balancing the Princess, her scale clung obstinately to the ground; and it was not until two maunds had been put in the other, that the Princess began to move upwards. Who acts: five flowers, scale, Princess. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid,
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 132

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Instead of the five flowers balancing the Princess, her scale clung obstinately to the ground; and it was not until two maunds had been put in the other, that the Princess began to move upwards.

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**Who acts:** five flowers, scale, Princess · **What happens:** balance, cling, not put, begin, move · **To what, where:** Princess, ground, other

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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 (five flowers, scale, Princess), 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:pg76982:19:132
# text = Instead of the five flowers balancing the Princess, her scale clung obstinately to the ground; and it was not until two maunds had been put in the other, that the Princess began to move upwards.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	balancing	balance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	clung	cling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	obstinately	obstinately	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
22	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	maunds	maund	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	upwards	upwards	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **balance** | gerund | the five flowers *not said here* | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location princess=Theme |
| 2 | **cling** | past | princess's scale | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ground=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **put** | past · perfect · passive |  | ground |  | the other |  | two maunds *nsubj:pass* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in other=Destination |
| 4 | **begin** | past | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **move** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upwards *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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