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title: A road sufficiently good for a Ford Car leads thither and a run ther… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: A road sufficiently good for a Ford Car leads thither and a run there on a cold weather morning is a bracing and exhilarating experience. Who acts: road, run. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 126

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A road sufficiently good for a Ford Car leads thither and a run there on a cold weather morning is a bracing and exhilarating experience.

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**Who acts:** road, run · **What happens:** lead, be · **To what, where:** bracing

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, run), 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:pg76982:10:126
# text = A road sufficiently good for a Ford Car leads thither and a run there on a cold weather morning is a bracing and exhilarating experience.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Ford	Ford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Car	Car	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bracing	bracing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	exhilarating	exhilarating	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | present | a road |  |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a run on a cold weather morning | a bracing and exhilarating experience |  |  |  | exhilarating experience *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:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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