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title: Long before time as we count it, there lived in India a great and ju… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Long before time as we count it, there lived in India a great and just King whose name was Vikramaditya. Who acts: we, King, name. 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 eve
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 59

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Long before time as we count it, there lived in India a great and just King whose name was Vikramaditya.

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**Who acts:** we, King, name · **What happens:** count, live, name, be · **To what, where:** THRONE, India, great Vikramaditya

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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 (we, King, name), 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:pg69647:1:59
# text = Long before time as we count it, there lived in India a great and just King whose name was Vikramaditya.
1	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
2	before	before	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	Vikramaditya	Vikramaditya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | we | THRONE |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past |  |  |  | India; there |  | long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in india=Location |
| 3 | **name** |  | King |  |  |  |  | a great Vikramaditya *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | a great Vikramaditya's name | a great Vikramaditya |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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