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title: And together as children they shared the day’s meal, and together as… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And together as children they shared the day’s meal, and together as children they talked of the wonders of the heavens. Who acts: children. 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 pragmat
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 43

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And together as children they shared the day’s meal, and together as children they talked of the wonders of the heavens.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** share, talk, wonder · **To what, where:** meal, heavens

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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 (children), 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:pg69647:1:43
# text = And together as children they shared the day’s meal, and together as children they talked of the wonders of the heavens.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	shared	share	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | past | children | the day's meal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | past | children |  |  |  |  | of the wonders of the heavens | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wonder** |  |  | the heavens |  |  |  |  | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=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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