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title: And Drona journeyed to a far country, and for many years the River o… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Drona journeyed to a far country, and for many years the River of Time flowed between him and the man whom he wanted for friend. Who acts: Drona, River. 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
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 110

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And Drona journeyed to a far country, and for many years the River of Time flowed between him and the man whom he wanted for friend.

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**Who acts:** Drona, River · **What happens:** journey, flow, want · **To what, where:** far country, man

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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, River), 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:pg69647:2:110
# text = And Drona journeyed to a far country, and for many years the River of Time flowed between him and the man whom he wanted for friend.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Drona	Drona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Time	Time	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	between	between	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | past | Drona |  |  | a far country |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to country=Destination |
| 2 | **flow** | past | the River of Time |  |  |  | year | between Drona | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between he=Location |
| 3 | **want** | past | Drona | the man |  |  |  | for friend | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whom=Theme |

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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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