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title: But he marvelled that she did not ask for herself; so, “Ask again” h… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: But he marvelled that she did not ask for herself; so, “Ask again” he said. Who acts: Yudhisthira, shoot. 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 clause.
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 54

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But he marvelled that she did not ask for herself; so, “Ask again” he said.

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**Who acts:** Yudhisthira, shoot · **What happens:** marvell, not ask, ask, say · **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 (Yudhisthira, shoot), 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:pg69647:2:54
# text = But he marvelled that she did not ask for herself; so, “Ask again” he said.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	marvelled	marvell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marvell** | past | Yudhisthira |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | past · do-support | shoot |  |  |  |  | for shoot | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | infinitive | Yudhisthira *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Yudhisthira |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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