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title: On a day when Rupsinh was a lad of fifteen, he lay asleep with his h… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: On a day when Rupsinh was a lad of fifteen, he lay asleep with his head resting on the lap of the queen. Who acts: Rupsinh, head. 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 7

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On a day when Rupsinh was a lad of fifteen, he lay asleep with his head resting on the lap of the queen.

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**Who acts:** Rupsinh, head · **What happens:** be, lie, rest · **To what, where:** lad, lap

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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 (Rupsinh, head), 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:pg76982:19:7
# text = On a day when Rupsinh was a lad of fifteen, he lay asleep with his head resting on the lap of the queen.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	Rupsinh	Rupsinh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Rupsinh | a lad |  |  |  | of fifteen | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | past | Rupsinh |  |  |  | day | with Rupsinh's head; asleep *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rest** | gerund | Rupsinh's head *not said here* |  |  | the lap of the queen |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lap=Location |

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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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