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description: “And you will bring one of the two,” he had said to Drupada; “for all that matters is that we should bring the same.” Who acts: Drupada, Drona, we. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 108

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“And you will bring one of the two,” he had said to Drupada; “for all that matters is that we should bring the same.”

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**Who acts:** Drupada, Drona, we · **What happens:** bring, say, matter, be · **To what, where:** one, Drupada · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drupada, Drona, we), 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:pg69647:2:108
# text = “And you will bring one of the two,” he had said to Drupada; “for all that matters is that we should bring the same.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Drupada	Drupada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	obl	_	_
22	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | future | Drupada | one of the two |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Drona |  | Drupada |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to drupada=Recipient |
| 3 | **matter** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | for that | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | should · present | we |  |  |  |  | bring *property* | 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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