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title: They lived there because there was no higher spot in all the world t… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: They lived there because there was no higher spot in all the world that could be found for their home. Who acts: BROTHERS, higher spot. 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 o
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 37

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They lived there because there was no higher spot in all the world that could be found for their home.

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**Who acts:** BROTHERS, higher spot · **What happens:** live, be, find · **To what, where:** 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 (BROTHERS, higher spot), 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:pg69647:1:37
# text = They lived there because there was no higher spot in all the world that could be found for their home.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
8	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | BROTHERS *= brother* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | no higher spot in all world |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | could · passive |  | all world |  |  |  | for BROTHERS's home | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for home=Beneficiary |

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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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