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title: My left eye but weeps because to the right side of the King alone is… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: My left eye but weeps because to the right side of the King alone is it given to protect the weak and defenceless.” Who acts: left eye. 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 o
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 139

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My left eye but weeps because to the right side of the King alone is it given to protect the weak and defenceless.”

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**Who acts:** left eye · **What happens:** weep, give, protect · **To what, where:** side, right side, 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 (left eye), 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:pg69647:2:139
# text = My left eye but weeps because to the right side of the King alone is it given to protect the weak and defenceless.”
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	weeps	weep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	defenceless	defenceless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | present | My left eye |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | present · passive |  | side | the right side of the King |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to side=Recipient |
| 3 | **protect** | to-infinitive |  | the weak |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weak=Beneficiary |

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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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