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title: And he thought about him, and fasted and prayed night and day for sk… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he thought about him, and fasted and prayed night and day for skill in shooting: and night and day he practised ceaselessly, shooting arrows into the distance--shooting and shooting. Who acts: Ekalavya. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia 
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 149

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And he thought about him, and fasted and prayed night and day for skill in shooting: and night and day he practised ceaselessly, shooting arrows into the distance--shooting and shooting.

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**Who acts:** Ekalavya · **What happens:** think, fast, pray, practise, shoot · **To what, where:** arrows

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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 (Ekalavya), 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:pg69647:1:149
# text = And he thought about him, and fasted and prayed night and day for skill in shooting: and night and day he practised ceaselessly, shooting arrows into the distance--shooting and shooting.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fasted	fast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	shooting	shooting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	practised	practise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	ceaselessly	ceaselessly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	shooting	shoot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
28	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	shooting	shooting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	shooting	shooting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Ekalavya |  |  |  |  | about Drona | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about he=Topic |
| 2 | **fast** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pray** | past |  |  |  |  | night | for skill in shooting | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for skill=Theme |
| 4 | **practise** | past | Ekalavya |  |  |  | night | ceaselessly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **shoot** | gerund | Ekalavya *not said here* | arrows |  |  |  | into the distance and shooting and shooting | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme into distance=Destination |

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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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