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title: She said: “If you will go, my King, then heed my words carefully, fo… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: She said: “If you will go, my King, then heed my words carefully, for the road is long and full of perils. Who acts: queen, you, road, my. 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 clau
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 23

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She said: “If you will go, my King, then heed my words carefully, for the road is long and full of perils.

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**Who acts:** queen, you, road, my · **What happens:** say, go, heed, be, word · **To what, where:** words · **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 (queen, you, road, my), 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:pg76982:19:23
# text = She said: “If you will go, my King, then heed my words carefully, for the road is long and full of perils.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	heed	heed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	perils	peril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | my King *vocative* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **heed** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | my words |  |  | then | carefully *property* | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the road |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* |  | the road *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of perils | tree rules |
| 6 | **word** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | 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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