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title: They touched at various ports, but although they shewed the chief me… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: They touched at various ports, but although they shewed the chief men there the portrait found in the eighth chamber, none recognised it. Who acts: companions, none. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 21

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They touched at various ports, but although they shewed the chief men there the portrait found in the eighth chamber, none recognised it.

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**Who acts:** companions, none · **What happens:** touch, shew, find, recognise · **To what, where:** various ports, chief men, portrait, eighth chamber

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companions, none), 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:pg76982:11:21
# text = They touched at various ports, but although they shewed the chief men there the portrait found in the eighth chamber, none recognised it.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ports	port	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	shewed	shew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	eighth	eighth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
24	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | past | companions *= companion* |  |  | various ports |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shew** | past | companions *= companion* | the chief men |  |  |  | the portrait *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | participle |  | the portrait *not said here* |  | the eighth chamber |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **recognise** | past | none | portrait |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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