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title: Then he turned and saw the anchorite trying to soothe the other Anar… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he turned and saw the anchorite trying to soothe the other Anardes, for it was their voices which the king had heard. Who acts: king, anchorite, door. 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 pragmat
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 168

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Then he turned and saw the anchorite trying to soothe the other Anardes, for it was their voices which the king had heard.

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**Who acts:** king, anchorite, door · **What happens:** turn, see, try, soothe, be, hear · **To what, where:** anchorite, other Anardes, voices

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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 (king, anchorite, door), 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:pg76982:19:168
# text = Then he turned and saw the anchorite trying to soothe the other Anardes, for it was their voices which the king had heard.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	anchorite	anchorite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	soothe	soothe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Anardes	Anarde	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | king |  |  |  | then |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | king *not said here* | the anchorite |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | gerund | the anchorite *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **soothe** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the anchorite *not said here* | the other Anardes |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anarde=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | door |  |  |  |  | for Anardes's voices; Anardes *= anarde* *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 6 | **hear** | past · perfect | the king | Anardes's voices |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |

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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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