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title: Proudly and patiently she heard the long tale of his greatness sound… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proudly and patiently she heard the long tale of his greatness sounded by the heralds: and silently and proudly she passed on. Who acts: choice, greatness. 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 
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 131

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Proudly and patiently she heard the long tale of his greatness sounded by the heralds: and silently and proudly she passed on.

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**Who acts:** choice, greatness · **What happens:** hear, sound, pass on, tell · **To what, where:** long tale, greatness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (choice, greatness), 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:pg69647:1:131
# text = Proudly and patiently she heard the long tale of his greatness sounded by the heralds: and silently and proudly she passed on.
1	Proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	greatness	greatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	sounded	sound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	heralds	herald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	18	conj	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | choice | the long tale of PRINCE's greatness |  |  |  | patiently, proudly, silently *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sound** | participle |  | PRINCE's greatness *not said here* |  |  |  | by the heralds | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by herald=Location |
| 3 | **pass on** | past | choice |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** |  | PRINCE's greatness |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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