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title: When they found him at the temple, the king told his sister-in-law a… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: When they found him at the temple, the king told his sister-in-law all that had happened and begged her forgiveness also. Who acts: ministers, king, law all. 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 pragm
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 247

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When they found him at the temple, the king told his sister-in-law all that had happened and begged her forgiveness also.

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**Who acts:** ministers, king, law all · **What happens:** find, tell, happen, beg · **To what, where:** king, temple, sister, forgiveness · **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 (ministers, king, law all), 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:pg76982:19:247
# text = When they found him at the temple, the king told his sister-in-law all that had happened and begged her forgiveness also.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	all	all	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	also	also	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | ministers *= minister* | king |  | the temple |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at temple=Asset |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  | king's sister |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient |
| 3 | **happen** | past · perfect | law all |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the king *not said here* | queen's forgiveness |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Recipient |

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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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