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title: THE KING WHO KEPT HIS WORD 62 — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: THE KING WHO KEPT HIS WORD 62 Who acts: KING. 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 25

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THE KING WHO KEPT HIS WORD 62

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**Who acts:** KING · **What happens:** keep, word · **To what, where:** WORD

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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 (KING), 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:pg69647:1:25
# text = THE KING WHO KEPT HIS WORD 62
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	KING	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	WHO	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	KEPT	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	HIS	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	WORD	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	62	62	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the KING | KING's WORD |  |  |  | WHO *nsubj* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **word** |  | KING |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «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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