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title: Aho did so and as the words left his lips, a tall beautiful youth, r… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Aho did so and as the words left his lips, a tall beautiful youth, riding a noble steed, rose from the river and behind him followed thousands of soldiers and horsemen, chariots and war elephants. Who acts: Aho, words. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Udero Lal., with
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 32

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Aho did so and as the words left his lips, a tall beautiful youth, riding a noble steed, rose from the river and behind him followed thousands of soldiers and horsemen, chariots and war elephants.

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**Who acts:** Aho, words · **What happens:** do, leave, ride, rise, follow · **To what, where:** lips, noble steed, river, thousands

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Udero Lal.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aho, words), 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:pg76982:8:32
# text = Aho did so and as the words left his lips, a tall beautiful youth, riding a noble steed, rose from the river and behind him followed thousands of soldiers and horsemen, chariots and war elephants.
1	Aho	Aho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
30	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	chariots	chariot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Aho |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** | past | the words | Aho's lips and a tall beautiful youth |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Theme |
| 3 | **ride** | gerund | the words *not said here* | a noble steed |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Theme |
| 4 | **rise** | past | the words *not said here* |  |  | the river |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from river=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **follow** | past | Aho | thousands of soldiers and horsemen and chariots and war elephants |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme |

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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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