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title: And who, says the dervise, was the last person that lodged here? — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: And who, says the dervise, was the last person that lodged here? Who acts: last person. 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 clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of a Dervise., sentence 10

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And who, says the dervise, was the last person that lodged here?

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**Who acts:** last person · **What happens:** say, be, lodge · **To what, where:** last person · **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 (last person), 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:pg62868:9:10
# text = And who, says the dervise, was the last person that lodged here?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dervise	dervise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lodged	lodge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; the dervise *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the last person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lodge** | past | the last person |  |  | here |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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