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title: Hearing of the poor young king’s execution, she went at night and sp… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Hearing of the poor young king’s execution, she went at night and sprinkled three drops of Amrita over his body. Who acts: Hearing, execution, poor young 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 pra
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 136

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Hearing of the poor young king’s execution, she went at night and sprinkled three drops of Amrita over his body.

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**Who acts:** Hearing, execution, poor young king · **What happens:** go, sprinkle, hear, execute · **To what, where:** three drops, body

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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 (Hearing, execution, poor young 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:pg76982:19:136
# text = Hearing of the poor young king’s execution, she went at night and sprinkled three drops of Amrita over his body.
1	Hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	execution	execution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Amrita	Amrita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Hearing of the poor young king's execution |  |  |  | night |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sprinkle** | past | Hearing of the poor young king's execution *not said here* | three drops of Amrita |  | king's body |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme over body=Destination |
| 3 | **hear** |  | the poor young king's execution |  |  |  |  |  | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **execute** |  | the poor young king |  |  |  |  |  | nom execution «act transitive»: poss=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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