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title: A Dervise, travelling through Tartary, went into the king’s palace b… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: A Dervise, travelling through Tartary, went into the king’s palace by mistake, as thinking it to be a public inn, or caravansary. Who acts: Dervise. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of a Dervise., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of a Dervise., sentence 1

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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.

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**Who acts:** Dervise · **What happens:** travel, go, think, be · **To what, where:** Tartary, palace, Dervise, public inn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of a Dervise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dervise), 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:pg62868:9:1
# text = A Dervise, travelling through Tartary, went into the king’s palace by mistake, as thinking it to be a public inn, or caravansary.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dervise	Dervise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Tartary	Tartary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	caravansary	caravansary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | gerund | a Dervise *not said here* |  |  | Tartary |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tartary=Trajectory |
| 2 | **go** | past | a Dervise |  |  | the king's palace |  | by mistake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into palace=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | a Dervise *not said here* | Dervise |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a public inn or caravansary |  |  |  | caravansary *conj* | tree rules |

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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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