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title: After a voyage of several months and many hardships, they reached it… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: After a voyage of several months and many hardships, they reached it and the minister again presented himself in the guise of a merchant before the princess’ father. Who acts: hardships, minister. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with its dependency t
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 29

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After a voyage of several months and many hardships, they reached it and the minister again presented himself in the guise of a merchant before the princess’ father.

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**Who acts:** hardships, minister · **What happens:** reach, present, voyage · **To what, where:** voyage, minister, guise, several months

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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 (hardships, minister), 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:pg76982:11:29
# text = After a voyage of several months and many hardships, they reached it and the minister again presented himself in the guise of a merchant before the princess’ father.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hardships	hardship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	guise	guise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	before	before	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | hardships *= hardship* | voyage |  |  | after a voyage of several months and many hardships |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **present** | past | the minister | minister |  | the guise of a merchant | before princess father; again |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 3 | **voyage** |  |  | several months and many hardships |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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