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title: And Drona was sad: for he was a poor man, and two sticks gathered in… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Drona was sad: for he was a poor man, and two sticks gathered in a wood were all that he could bring to the lighting. Who acts: Drona, two sticks, poor man. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 2, with its dependency 
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 107

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And Drona was sad: for he was a poor man, and two sticks gathered in a wood were all that he could bring to the lighting.

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**Who acts:** Drona, two sticks, poor man · **What happens:** be, gather, bring · **To what, where:** poor man, wood, lighting

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drona, two sticks, poor man), 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:pg69647:2:107
# text = And Drona was sad: for he was a poor man, and two sticks gathered in a wood were all that he could bring to the lighting.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Drona	Drona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	lighting	lighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Drona |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Drona |  |  |  |  | for a poor man | tree rules |
| 3 | **gather** | past | two sticks | a poor man *not said here* |  | a wood |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | could · past | a poor man |  |  | the lighting |  | Drona *nsubj*; all *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to lighting=Destination |

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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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