--- title: “Give me”, she said, “that picture which the great painter at Delhi… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics description: “Give me”, she said, “that picture which the great painter at Delhi has made of you, on ivory, in green and gold: and the rest I will tell you when I come again from my journey.” Who acts: you, Prithi, rest, my. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Corn --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/1/104/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian tales of the great ones among m…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/) / [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/1/) / 104 # Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 104 “Give me”, she said, “that picture which the great painter at Delhi has made of you, on ivory, in green and gold: and the rest I will tell you when I come again from my journey.” **Who acts:** you, Prithi, rest, my · **What happens:** give, say, make, tell, come, journey · **To what, where:** Prithi, great painter, ivory, you, journey · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, Prithi, rest, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg69647:1:104 # text = “Give me”, she said, “that picture which the great painter at Delhi has made of you, on ivory, in green and gold: and the rest I will tell you when I come again from my journey.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 11 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 ccomp _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 painter painter NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Delhi Delhi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl:relcl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 ivory ivory NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 green green NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 : : PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 iobj _ _ 38 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 41 again again ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | Prithi | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Prithi | | | | | that picture *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | the great painter at Delhi | | ivory | | of you; in green and gold; that picture *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary which=Product | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | the rest | | you | | | I *nsubj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 5 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Prithi | | | my journey | again | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from journey=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **journey** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/1/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/1/105/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/1/)