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title: The poor queen regretted bitterly her words and begged the young kin… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor queen regretted bitterly her words and begged the young king to pay no heed to them. Who acts: poor queen, queen. 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 16

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The poor queen regretted bitterly her words and begged the young king to pay no heed to them.

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**Who acts:** poor queen, queen · **What happens:** regret, beg, pay, word · **To what, where:** words, young king, heed

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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 (poor queen, queen), 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:pg76982:19:16
# text = The poor queen regretted bitterly her words and begged the young king to pay no heed to them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	regretted	regret	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regret** | participle | the poor queen *not said here* | queen's words |  |  |  | bitterly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the poor queen |  | the young king |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
| 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive | the poor queen *not said here* | no heed | words *= word* |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset |
| 4 | **word** |  | queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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