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title: And so each time that the King returned to mount the throne, an eagl… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And so each time that the King returned to mount the throne, an eagle spoke and showed some evil of his life, and the King went away sorrowful to his three days’ fasting. Who acts: King, eagle, three days. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia S
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 87

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And so each time that the King returned to mount the throne, an eagle spoke and showed some evil of his life, and the King went away sorrowful to his three days’ fasting.

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**Who acts:** King, eagle, three days · **What happens:** return, mount, speak, show, go away, fast · **To what, where:** time, throne, evil · **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, eagle, three days), 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:pg69647:1:87
# text = And so each time that the King returned to mount the throne, an eagle spoke and showed some evil of his life, and the King went away sorrowful to his three days’ fasting.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	mount	mount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	SYM	SYM	_	36	punct	_	_
36	fasting	fast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | the King | each time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mount** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | the throne |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Patient |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | a eagle |  |  |  | time |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **show** | past | a eagle *not said here* | some evil of KING's life |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent evil=Recipient |
| 5 | **go away** | past | the King |  |  |  |  | away, sorrowful *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fast** | gerund | KING's three days *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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