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title: One day as the King sat in his great Hall of Justice, there came in… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day as the King sat in his great Hall of Justice, there came in at the window a poor frightened grey dove, nearly spent with flight, and flew straight against the heart of the King. Who acts: poor frightened grey dove. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-peop
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 121

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One day as the King sat in his great Hall of Justice, there came in at the window a poor frightened grey dove, nearly spent with flight, and flew straight against the heart of the King.

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**Who acts:** poor frightened grey dove · **What happens:** sit, come in, spend, fly · **To what, where:** great Hall, window, poor frightened grey dove, heart

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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 (poor frightened grey dove), 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:pg69647:2:121
# text = One day as the King sat in his great Hall of Justice, there came in at the window a poor frightened grey dove, nearly spent with flight, and flew straight against the heart of the King.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Justice	Justice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
33	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	against	against	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  |  |  | King's great Hall of Justice | day | as the King | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location |
| 2 | **come in** | past | a poor frightened grey dove |  |  | the window; there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location |
| 3 | **spend** | participle |  | a poor frightened grey dove *not said here* |  |  |  | with flight; nearly *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fly** | past |  |  |  | the heart of the King |  | straight *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against heart=Location |

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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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