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title: When the plains of India were burnt up by a long continuance of drou… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: When the plains of India were burnt up by a long continuance of drought, Hamet and Raschid, two neighbouring shepherds, faint with thirst, stood at the common boundary of their grounds, with their flocks and herds panting round them, and in extremity of distress prayed for water. Who acts: long cont
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Hamet and Raschid., sentence 1

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When the plains of India were burnt up by a long continuance of drought, Hamet and Raschid, two neighbouring shepherds, faint with thirst, stood at the common boundary of their grounds, with their flocks and herds panting round them, and in extremity of distress prayed for water.

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**Who acts:** long continuance, flocks, drought · **What happens:** burnt up, stand, pant, pray, continue · **To what, where:** plains, common boundary, distress

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Hamet and Raschid.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long continuance, flocks, drought), 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:pg62868:5:1
# text = When the plains of India were burnt up by a long continuance of drought, Hamet and Raschid, two neighbouring shepherds, faint with thirst, stood at the common boundary of their grounds, with their flocks and herds panting round them, and in extremity of distress prayed for water.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	continuance	continuance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	drought	drought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Hamet	Hamet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Raschid	Raschid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	boundary	boundary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
42	panting	pant	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	acl	_	_
43	round	round	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	extremity	extremity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
51	prayed	pray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	acl	_	_
52	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burnt up** | past · passive | a long continuance of drought | the plains of India |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past | a long continuance of drought *not said here* |  |  | the common boundary of plains's grounds |  | with plains's flocks and herds; in extremity of distress | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at boundary=Location |
| 3 | **pant** | gerund | plains's flocks and herds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round plains *= plain* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pray** | participle |  | distress *not said here* |  |  |  | for water | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for water=Theme |
| 5 | **continue** |  | drought |  |  |  |  |  | nom continuance «act intransitive»: of=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:** «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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