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title: Pedro then asked for the cost of the expedition, estimated, I dare s… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Pedro then asked for the cost of the expedition, estimated, I dare say, on a liberal scale. Who acts: Pedro, I. 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 62

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Pedro then asked for the cost of the expedition, estimated, I dare say, on a liberal scale.

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**Who acts:** Pedro, I · **What happens:** ask, estimate, dare, say, cost · **To what, where:** expedition, liberal scale · **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 (Pedro, I), 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:pg76982:13:62
# text = Pedro then asked for the cost of the expedition, estimated, I dare say, on a liberal scale.
1	Pedro	Pedro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	estimated	estimate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	dare	dare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	liberal	liberal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Pedro |  |  |  | then | for the cost of the expedition | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **estimate** | participle |  | the expedition *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dare** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | a liberal scale |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cost** |  |  | the expedition |  |  |  |  | nom cost «possession 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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