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# Story of a Dervise.

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Story of a Dervise. of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous: the whole text, 16 sentences and 284 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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A Dervise, travelling through Tartary, went into the king’s palace by mistake, as thinking it to be a public inn, or caravansary.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") Having looked about him for some time, he entered into a long gallery, where he laid down his wallet, and spread his carpet, in order to repose himself upon it, after the manner of the eastern nations.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics")

He had not been long in this posture before he was discovered by some of the guards, who asked him what was his business in that place?[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") The dervise told them that he intended to take up his night’s lodging in that caravansary.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") The guards told him, in a very angry manner, that the house he was in was not a caravansary, but the king’s palace.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") It happened that the king himself passed through the gallery during this debate; and, smiling at the mistake of the dervise, asked him how he could possibly be so dull as not to distinguish a palace from a caravansary.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics")

Sir, says the dervise, give me leave to ask your majesty a question or two.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") Who were the persons that lodged in this house when it was first built?[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") The king replied, his ancestors.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") And who, says the dervise, was the last person that lodged here?[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") The king replied, his father.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") And who is it, says the dervise, that lodges here at present?[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") The king told him that it was himself.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") And who, says the dervise, will be here after you?[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") The king answered, the young prince his son.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") “Ah, Sir,” said the dervise, “a house that changes its inhabitants so often, and receives such a perpetual succession of guests, is not a palace, but a caravansary.”[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics")

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