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title: On coming to the wall, Motishah climbed on to the king’s shoulders a… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: On coming to the wall, Motishah climbed on to the king’s shoulders and thence on to the wall. Who acts: Motishah. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, King Mansing of Sirohi., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 40

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On coming to the wall, Motishah climbed on to the king’s shoulders and thence on to the wall.

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**Who acts:** Motishah · **What happens:** come, climb · **To what, where:** wall, shoulders

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, King Mansing of Sirohi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Motishah), 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:pg76982:16:40
# text = On coming to the wall, Motishah climbed on to the king’s shoulders and thence on to the wall.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	Motishah	Motishah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | Motishah *not said here* |  |  | the wall |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wall=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **climb** | past | Motishah |  |  | the king's shoulders |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shoulder=Destination |

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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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