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title: There was a Master-Archer whose name was Drona: and it was he who ta… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a Master-Archer whose name was Drona: and it was he who taught all the princes of India to shoot, so that none could conquer them. Who acts: Master, name, none, Drona. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 1, wit
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 142

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There was a Master-Archer whose name was Drona: and it was he who taught all the princes of India to shoot, so that none could conquer them.

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**Who acts:** Master, name, none, Drona · **What happens:** be, shoot, conquer, name · **To what, where:** Drona, Men

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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 (Master, name, none, Drona), 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:pg69647:1:142
# text = There was a Master-Archer whose name was Drona: and it was he who taught all the princes of India to shoot, so that none could conquer them.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Archer	Archer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	Drona	Drona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:outer	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	30	mark	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	30	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	conquer	conquer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a Master |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Drona's name | Drona |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | name |  |  |  |  | Master *nsubj*; who *nsubj*; all princes of India *obj*; teach *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **shoot** | to-infinitive | name *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **conquer** | could | none | Men *= man* |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 6 | **name** |  | Drona |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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