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title: He travelled with a great many other people, all coming through the… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: He travelled with a great many other people, all coming through the snow mountains and passes, and wild bleak places of Afghanistan. Who acts: Rahtore, all. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 54

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He travelled with a great many other people, all coming through the snow mountains and passes, and wild bleak places of Afghanistan.

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**Who acts:** Rahtore, all · **What happens:** travel, come, pass · **To what, where:** wild bleak places, snow mountains

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This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rahtore, all), 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:pg69647:4:54
# text = He travelled with a great many other people, all coming through the snow mountains and passes, and wild bleak places of Afghanistan.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nsubj	_	_
11	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	bleak	bleak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past | Rahtore | wild bleak places of Afghanistan |  |  |  | with a great many other people | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | all |  |  | the snow mountains |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through mountain=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **pass** | present | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:** «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Project Gutenberg book 69647 (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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