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title: “Safe comes the ship to harbour Through billows and through gales If… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: “Safe comes the ship to harbour Through billows and through gales If once the great twin brethren Sit shining on the sails.” Who acts: Safe. 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 61

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“Safe comes the ship to harbour Through billows and through gales If once the great twin brethren Sit shining on the sails.”

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**Who acts:** Safe · **What happens:** come, harbour, sit, shine · **To what, where:** ship, billows, great twin brethren, sails

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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 (Safe), 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:pg76982:9:61
# text = “Safe comes the ship to harbour Through billows and through gales If once the great twin brethren Sit shining on the sails.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Safe	safe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	harbour	harbour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	billows	billow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	gales	gale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	twin	twin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
19	Sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
20	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Safe | the ship |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ship=Theme |
| 2 | **harbour** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Safe *not said here* |  |  | billows and gales |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Safe *not said here* | the great twin brethren |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shine** *in a quote* | gerund | Safe *not said here* |  |  | the sails |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sail=Location |

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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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