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title: And they were very angry; for said they, “Someone who can shoot has… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they were very angry; for said they, “Someone who can shoot has sent this arrow into the dog’s mouth.” Who acts: arrows, Someone. 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 
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 155

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And they were very angry; for said they, “Someone who can shoot has sent this arrow into the dog’s mouth.”

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**Who acts:** arrows, Someone · **What happens:** be, say, shoot, send · **To what, where:** arrow, mouth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (arrows, Someone), 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:pg69647:1:155
# text = And they were very angry; for said they, “Someone who can shoot has sent this arrow into the dog’s mouth.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | arrows *= arrow* |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | arrows *= arrow* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shoot** *in a quote* | can |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **send** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Someone | this arrow |  | the dog's mouth |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=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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