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title: He, perhaps merely seeking the shortest and quickest route to some t… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He, perhaps merely seeking the shortest and quickest route to some temporary post up North, or possibly to his permanent home in the damp, grey West, notices only torrid heat, arid wastes, blinding glare, suffocating dust, and a coastal Port somewhat reminiscent of Suez or Port Said. Who acts: visit
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 11

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He, perhaps merely seeking the shortest and quickest route to some temporary post up North, or possibly to his permanent home in the damp, grey West, notices only torrid heat, arid wastes, blinding glare, suffocating dust, and a coastal Port somewhat reminiscent of Suez or Port Said.

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**Who acts:** visitor, shortest route, arid wastes, coastal Port · **What happens:** seek, post up, notice, blind, suffocate, reminiscent · **To what, where:** shortest route, temporary, torrid heat, glare, dust

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author’s Preface.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (visitor, shortest route, arid wastes, coastal Port), 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:pg76982:2:11
# text = He, perhaps merely seeking the shortest and quickest route to some temporary post up North, or possibly to his permanent home in the damp, grey West, notices only torrid heat, arid wastes, blinding glare, suffocating dust, and a coastal Port somewhat reminiscent of Suez or Port Said.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	shortest	short	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	quickest	quick	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	conj	_	_
10	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	temporary	temporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
14	post	post	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
19	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	notices	notice	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	torrid	torrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	arid	arid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	wastes	waste	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	blinding	blind	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	_
40	glare	glare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	suffocating	suffocate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	conj	_	_
43	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	Port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	reminiscent	reminiscent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	Suez	Suez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
53	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	_
55	Said	Said	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | gerund | visitor | the shortest route |  |  |  | merely, perhaps *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent route=Theme |
| 2 | **post up** | present | the shortest route *not said here* |  |  | some temporary |  | North *vocative* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to temporary=Destination |
| 3 | **notice** | present |  | torrid heat and arid wastes |  |  |  | possibly *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer heat=Stimulus |
| 4 | **blind** | gerund | arid wastes *not said here* | glare |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **suffocate** | gerund | arid wastes *not said here* | dust |  |  |  |  | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dust=Patient |
| 6 | **reminiscent** |  | a coastal Port |  |  |  |  | of Suez or Port; somewhat *property* | tree rules |

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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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