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title: In no long time he saw an ascetic, who for 700 years had been doing… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: In no long time he saw an ascetic, who for 700 years had been doing penances, in order to win the queen of the Anardes. Who acts: king, ascetic doing penances. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 175

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In no long time he saw an ascetic, who for 700 years had been doing penances, in order to win the queen of the Anardes.

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**Who acts:** king, ascetic doing penances · **What happens:** see, do, win · **To what, where:** ascetic doing penances, queen

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, ascetic doing penances), 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:pg76982:19:175
# text = In no long time he saw an ascetic, who for 700 years had been doing penances, in order to win the queen of the Anardes.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
8	ascetic	ascetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	700	700	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux	_	_
16	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	amod	_	_
17	penances	penance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	22	mark	_	_
20	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	fixed	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Anardes	Anarde	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | king | a ascetic doing penances |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer penance=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect · progressive | a ascetic doing penances |  |  |  | year |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **win** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | the queen of the Anardes |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality |

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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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