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title: SAMYUKTA, OR THE STORY OF THE OWN-CHOOSING 16 — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: SAMYUKTA, OR THE STORY OF THE OWN-CHOOSING 16 Who acts: STORY. 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 14

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SAMYUKTA, OR THE STORY OF THE OWN-CHOOSING 16

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**Who acts:** STORY · **What happens:** choose · **To what, where:** 16, SAMYUKTA

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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 (STORY), 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:pg69647:1:14
# text = SAMYUKTA, OR THE STORY OF THE OWN-CHOOSING 16
1	SAMYUKTA	SAMYUKTA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	OR	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	STORY	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	OF	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	OWN	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	CHOOSING	choose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
11	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | gerund | the STORY *not said here* | 16 |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 16=Theme |

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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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