🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 11

He, perhaps merely seeking the shortest and quickest route to some temporary post up North, or possibly to his permanent home in the damp, grey West, notices only torrid heat, arid wastes, blinding glare, suffocating dust, and a coastal Port somewhat reminiscent of Suez or Port Said.

Who acts: visitor, shortest route, arid wastes, coastal Port · What happens: seek, post up, notice, blind, suffocate, reminiscent · To what, where: shortest route, temporary, torrid heat, glare, dust

This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author’s Preface.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (visitor, shortest route, arid wastes, coastal Port), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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