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title: The old woman loved Prithi Raja very dearly, and found a way of help… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The old woman loved Prithi Raja very dearly, and found a way of helping him. Who acts: old woman, way. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 103

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The old woman loved Prithi Raja very dearly, and found a way of helping him.

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**Who acts:** old woman, way · **What happens:** love, find, help · **To what, where:** Prithi Raja, way, Raja

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This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, way), 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:pg69647:1:103
# text = The old woman loved Prithi Raja very dearly, and found a way of helping him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Prithi	Prithi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	dearly	dearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	helping	help	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | the old woman | Prithi Raja |  |  |  | dearly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer raja=Stimulus |
| 2 | **find** | past | the old woman *not said here* | a way |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 3 | **help** | gerund | a way *not said here* |  | Raja |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

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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:** «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Project Gutenberg book 69647 (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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