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title: And he forgot the riches of his palace and all the pleasures of the… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he forgot the riches of his palace and all the pleasures of the world, in reaching out to his great desire. Who acts: Ekalavya. 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 ev
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 150

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And he forgot the riches of his palace and all the pleasures of the world, in reaching out to his great desire.

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**Who acts:** Ekalavya · **What happens:** forget, reach out, please, desire · **To what, where:** riches, world

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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:pg69647:1:150
# text = And he forgot the riches of his palace and all the pleasures of the world, in reaching out to his great desire.
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	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past | Ekalavya | the riches of Ekalavya's palace and all pleasures of the world |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach out** | gerund | Ekalavya *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Ekalavya's great desire | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **please** |  |  | the world |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **desire** |  | Ekalavya |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling 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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