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title: But when the King would have mounted the throne, one of the carven e… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the King would have mounted the throne, one of the carven eagles which bore the throne on its back, came alive and spoke to the King. Who acts: King, carven eagles. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 1, with it
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 77

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But when the King would have mounted the throne, one of the carven eagles which bore the throne on its back, came alive and spoke to the King.

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**Who acts:** King, carven eagles · **What happens:** mount, bear, come, speak · **To what, where:** throne, back · **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 (King, carven eagles), 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:pg69647:1:77
# text = But when the King would have mounted the throne, one of the carven eagles which bore the throne on its back, came alive and spoke to the King.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	carven	carven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
25	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | would · perfect | the King | the throne |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Patient |
| 2 | **bear** | past | the carven eagles | the throne |  | THRONE's back |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the King | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to king=Co-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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