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title: Moses took Joshua and a fish with him and in due course missed the f… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Moses took Joshua and a fish with him and in due course missed the fish and found the prophet. Who acts: Moses, fish. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 34

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Moses took Joshua and a fish with him and in due course missed the fish and found the prophet.

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**Who acts:** Moses, fish · **What happens:** take, miss, find · **To what, where:** Joshua, fish, prophet

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moses, fish), 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:pg76982:9:34
# text = Moses took Joshua and a fish with him and in due course missed the fish and found the prophet.
1	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Moses |  | Joshua |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument joshua=Destination |
| 2 | **miss** | past | a fish with Moses | the fish |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus |
| 3 | **find** | past | a fish with Moses *not said here* | the prophet |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophet=Topic |

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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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