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title: “Who are you,” said the princes, “who have skill in shooting even as… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Who are you,” said the princes, “who have skill in shooting even as ourselves?” Who acts: you. 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 157

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“Who are you,” said the princes, “who have skill in shooting even as ourselves?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, say, have · **To what, where:** princes, skill, shooting · **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 (you), 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:pg69647:1:157
# text = “Who are you,” said the princes, “who have skill in shooting even as ourselves?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	shooting	shooting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past |  | the princes |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | skill |  | shooting |  | as ourselves; who *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Patient |

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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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