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title: One day a crow swung in the breeze on the tongue of the bell, and th… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day a crow swung in the breeze on the tongue of the bell, and the cry for justice clanged forth, reaching the ear of the King. 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 eve
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 147

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One day a crow swung in the breeze on the tongue of the bell, and the cry for justice clanged forth, reaching the ear of the King.

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**What happens:** swing, clang, reach · **To what, where:** day crow, cry, ear

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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: 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:pg69647:2:147
# text = One day a crow swung in the breeze on the tongue of the bell, and the cry for justice clanged forth, reaching the ear of the King.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	swung	swing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	clanged	clang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
22	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swing** | participle |  | a day crow and the cry for justice *not said here* |  |  |  | in the breeze on the tongue of the bell | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in breeze=Attribute |
| 2 | **clang** | participle |  | the cry for justice *not said here* |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | gerund |  | the ear of the King |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=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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