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title: But the last prince also did Samyukta reject, and turning to the woo… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the last prince also did Samyukta reject, and turning to the wooden image of Prithi Raja, who had had no invitation to the Great-Choosing, she placed on its neck the garland, kept for her true knight alone. Who acts: last prince, wooden image, crowd. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 135

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But the last prince also did Samyukta reject, and turning to the wooden image of Prithi Raja, who had had no invitation to the Great-Choosing, she placed on its neck the garland, kept for her true knight alone.

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**Who acts:** last prince, wooden image, crowd · **What happens:** reject, turn, have, choose, place, keep · **To what, where:** wooden image, invitation, garland, neck, Prithi

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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 (last prince, wooden image, crowd), 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:pg69647:1:135
# text = But the last prince also did Samyukta reject, and turning to the wooden image of Prithi Raja, who had had no invitation to the Great-Choosing, she placed on its neck the garland, kept for her true knight alone.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	Samyukta	Samyukta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reject	reject	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Prithi	Prithi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	garland	garland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reject** | past · do-support | the last prince |  |  |  |  | Samyukta *nsubj* | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turn** | gerund | the last prince *not said here* |  |  | the wooden image of Prithi |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to image=Trajectory |
| 3 | **have** | past | the wooden image of Prithi | no invitation |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Patient |
| 4 | **choose** | gerund | the wooden image of Prithi *not said here* | no invitation *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **place** | past | crowd | the garland |  | invitation's neck |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent garland=Theme on neck=Destination |
| 6 | **keep** | participle |  | the garland *not said here* |  |  |  | for crowd's true knight | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **image** |  |  | Prithi |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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