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title: INDIAN TALES OF THE GREAT ONES — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: INDIAN TALES OF THE GREAT ONES Who acts: GREAT ONES. 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 4

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INDIAN TALES OF THE GREAT ONES

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**Who acts:** GREAT ONES · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** INDIAN TALES · **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 (GREAT ONES), 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:pg69647:1:4
# text = INDIAN TALES OF THE GREAT ONES
1	INDIAN	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	TALES	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	GREAT	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ONES	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **tell** |  | the GREAT ONES |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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