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title: Deeper and deeper they went, till they came to a throne of black mar… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Deeper and deeper they went, till they came to a throne of black marble, resting on the backs of twenty-four beautiful carved eagles of marble. Who acts: Men. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tr
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 74

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Deeper and deeper they went, till they came to a throne of black marble, resting on the backs of twenty-four beautiful carved eagles of marble.

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**Who acts:** Men · **What happens:** go, come, rest, carve · **To what, where:** throne, backs

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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 (Men), 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:pg69647:1:74
# text = Deeper and deeper they went, till they came to a throne of black marble, resting on the backs of twenty-four beautiful carved eagles of marble.
1	Deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	1	cc	_	_
3	deeper	deep	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
22	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Men *= man* |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | Men *= man* |  |  | a throne of black marble |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to throne=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **rest** | gerund | Men *= man* *not said here* |  |  | the backs of four beautiful carved eagles of marble |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Location |
| 4 | **carve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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