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title: At the age of fourteen he was vouchsafed a vision of no less a perso… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: At the age of fourteen he was vouchsafed a vision of no less a personage than Mahomed himself. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 28

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At the age of fourteen he was vouchsafed a vision of no less a personage than Mahomed himself.

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**What happens:** vouchsafe · **To what, where:** duck, age

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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: 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:pg76982:10:28
# text = At the age of fourteen he was vouchsafed a vision of no less a personage than Mahomed himself.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	vouchsafed	vouchsafe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
13	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	personage	personage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vouchsafe** | past · passive |  | duck |  |  | at the age of fourteen | a vision of no less personage than Mahomed  duck *obj* | 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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