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title: And Drona’s pupils, Arjun and his brother princes, took Drupada capt… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Drona’s pupils, Arjun and his brother princes, took Drupada captive and brought him to Drona. Who acts: pupils. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 112

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And Drona’s pupils, Arjun and his brother princes, took Drupada captive and brought him to Drona.

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**Who acts:** pupils · **What happens:** take, bring · **To what, where:** Drupada captive, pupil, Drona

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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 (pupils), 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:pg69647:2:112
# text = And Drona’s pupils, Arjun and his brother princes, took Drupada captive and brought him to Drona.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	Drona	Drona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Arjun	Arjun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Drupada	Drupada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Drona	Drona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Drona's pupils | Drupada captive |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past | Drona's pupils *not said here* | pupil | Drona |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to drona=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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