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title: Draupadi was the most beautiful of women, and Yudhisthira’s enemy wa… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Draupadi was the most beautiful of women, and Yudhisthira’s enemy was glad indeed when she was brought captive before him. Who acts: Draupadi, enemy. 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 th
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 48

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Draupadi was the most beautiful of women, and Yudhisthira’s enemy was glad indeed when she was brought captive before him.

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**Who acts:** Draupadi, enemy · **What happens:** be, bring · **To what, where:** shoot

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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 (Draupadi, enemy), 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:pg69647:2:48
# text = Draupadi was the most beautiful of women, and Yudhisthira’s enemy was glad indeed when she was brought captive before him.
1	Draupadi	Draupadi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	Yudhisthira	Yudhisthira	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
20	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Draupadi |  |  |  |  | of women; beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Yudhisthira's enemy |  |  |  |  | glad, indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | past · passive |  | shoot |  |  | before Yudhisthira | captive *obj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination captive=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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