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title: The gallant Pedro duly sailed up the Indus and reaching Tatta asked… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The gallant Pedro duly sailed up the Indus and reaching Tatta asked for orders. Who acts: gallant Pedro, reaching. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 59

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The gallant Pedro duly sailed up the Indus and reaching Tatta asked for orders.

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**Who acts:** gallant Pedro, reaching · **What happens:** sail up, reach, ask · **To what, where:** Indus, Tatta · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gallant Pedro, reaching), 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:pg76982:13:59
# text = The gallant Pedro duly sailed up the Indus and reaching Tatta asked for orders.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gallant	gallant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Pedro	Pedro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	duly	duly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Indus	Indus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
11	Tatta	Tatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail up** | past | the gallant Pedro | the Indus |  |  |  | duly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indus=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | gerund |  | Tatta |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tatta=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | reaching |  |  |  |  | for orders | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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