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description: And last of all there was only one eagle left; and the King came walking slowly: “This time I must sit on the throne,” was his thought. Who acts: King, time. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tre
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 88

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And last of all there was only one eagle left; and the King came walking slowly: “This time I must sit on the throne,” was his thought.

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**Who acts:** King, time · **What happens:** leave, come, walk, sit, be · **To what, where:** one eagle, throne, last thought

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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, time), 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:pg69647:1:88
# text = And last of all there was only one eagle left; and the King came walking slowly: “This time I must sit on the throne,” was his thought.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  | one eagle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk** | gerund | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** *in a quote* | must | this time |  |  | the throne |  | I *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | KING's last thought |  | there |  | KING *nmod:poss* | 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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