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title: Moses asked leave to be Al Khisr’s disciple and to learn his wisdom. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Moses asked leave to be Al Khisr’s disciple and to learn his wisdom. Who acts: Moses. 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 35

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Moses asked leave to be Al Khisr’s disciple and to learn his wisdom.

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**Who acts:** Moses · **What happens:** ask, leave, be, learn · **To what, where:** disciple, wisdom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg76982:9:35
# text = Moses asked leave to be Al Khisr’s disciple and to learn his wisdom.
1	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
6	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	Khisr	Khisr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
9	disciple	disciple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Moses |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | Al's disciple |  |  |  | Al *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **learn** | to-infinitive |  | Moses's wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=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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