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title: He was known to all the world as a man who protected the weak, but w… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: He was known to all the world as a man who protected the weak, but who yet did not withhold that which might belong to the strong. Who acts: 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 tree and the pr
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 118

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He was known to all the world as a man who protected the weak, but who yet did not withhold that which might belong to the strong.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** know, protect, not withhold, belong · **To what, where:** King, weak

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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 (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:pg69647:2:118
# text = He was known to all the world as a man who protected the weak, but who yet did not withhold that which might belong to the strong.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	protected	protect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
18	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	withhold	withhold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | King |  |  |  | to all world; as a man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as man=Attribute |
| 2 | **protect** | past | a man | the weak |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weak=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **not** **withhold** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  | yet | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **belong** | might |  |  |  |  |  | to the strong; which *nsubj* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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