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title: This state of things endured for several hundred years until one day… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: This state of things endured for several hundred years until one day King Rama’s foot touched by accident the stone that had been Ahalya. Who acts: stone. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 102

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This state of things endured for several hundred years until one day King Rama’s foot touched by accident the stone that had been Ahalya.

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**Who acts:** stone · **What happens:** endure, touch, be · **To what, where:** things, day foot, Ahalya, state

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stone), 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:pg76982:20:102
# text = This state of things endured for several hundred years until one day King Rama’s foot touched by accident the stone that had been Ahalya.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	endured	endure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	until	until	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Rama	Rama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
16	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
25	Ahalya	Ahalya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **endure** | participle |  | things *not said here* |  |  | until King's day foot; year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **touch** | participle |  | King's day foot *not said here* |  |  |  | by accident | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past · perfect | the stone | Ahalya |  |  |  | that *nsubj* | 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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