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title: The old king made enquiries and came to know that Rupsinh had severa… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The old king made enquiries and came to know that Rupsinh had several times spoken to Phulpancha. Who acts: old king, Rupsinh. 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 133

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The old king made enquiries and came to know that Rupsinh had several times spoken to Phulpancha.

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**Who acts:** old king, Rupsinh · **What happens:** make, come, know, have, speak · **To what, where:** enquiries, several times, Phulpancha · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (old king, Rupsinh), 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:pg76982:19:133
# text = The old king made enquiries and came to know that Rupsinh had several times spoken to Phulpancha.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	enquiries	enquiry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	Rupsinh	Rupsinh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Phulpancha	Phulpancha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle | the old king *not said here* | enquiries |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset enquiry=Product |
| 2 | **come** | past | the old king |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | to-infinitive | the old king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | past | Rupsinh |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  | several times *not said here* | Phulpancha |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to phulpancha=Co-Agent |

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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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