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description: And after his nobles had suffered for some time the cruelty and injustice of Raziya’s half-brother, they began to see that the King was right. Who acts: nobles, King. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 2, with its depen
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 165

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And after his nobles had suffered for some time the cruelty and injustice of Raziya’s half-brother, they began to see that the King was right.

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**Who acts:** nobles, King · **What happens:** suffer, begin, see, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (nobles, King), 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:pg69647:2:166
# text = And after his nobles had suffered for some time the cruelty and injustice of Raziya’s half-brother, they began to see that the King was right.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	injustice	injustice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	Raziya	Raziya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | past · perfect | Altamish's nobles |  |  |  | time |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **begin** | past | nobles *= noble* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | nobles *= noble* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | the King |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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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