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title: And they told their parents; and soon all the village got into the h… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they told their parents; and soon all the village got into the habit of coming to the boy on the mound to settle disputes. Who acts: things, village, habit. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 1, with its dependency 
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 68

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And they told their parents; and soon all the village got into the habit of coming to the boy on the mound to settle disputes.

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**Who acts:** things, village, habit · **What happens:** tell, get, come, settle · **To what, where:** parents, habit, disputes · **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 (things, village, habit), 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:pg69647:1:68
# text = And they told their parents; and soon all the village got into the habit of coming to the boy on the mound to settle disputes.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
26	disputes	dispute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | things *= thing* |  | things's parents |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
| 2 | **get** | past | all village |  |  | the habit |  | on the mound | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into habit=Destination |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | the habit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the boy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to boy=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **settle** | to-infinitive | all village *not said here* | disputes |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dispute=Location |

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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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