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title: Let a sheep be killed: and place some meat in the lions’ mouths, tha… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let a sheep be killed: and place some meat in the lions’ mouths, that the crow may find its meal.” Who acts: you, sheep, crow. 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 c
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 159

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Let a sheep be killed: and place some meat in the lions’ mouths, that the crow may find its meal.”

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**Who acts:** you, sheep, crow · **What happens:** let, kill, find · **To what, where:** sheep, meal

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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 (you, sheep, crow), 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:pg69647:2:159
# text = Let a sheep be killed: and place some meat in the lions’ mouths, that the crow may find its meal.”
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | a sheep |  |  |  | place  some meat in the lions's mouths *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** | infinitive · passive | a sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **find** | may | the crow | meat's meal |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Topic |

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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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