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title: They need owe nothing to a boon; nor, with the Pandavas free, need I… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: They need owe nothing to a boon; nor, with the Pandavas free, need I either, any longer.” Who acts: Draupadi. 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 61

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They need owe nothing to a boon; nor, with the Pandavas free, need I either, any longer.”

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**Who acts:** Draupadi · **What happens:** need, owe · **To what, where:** nothing, boon, I

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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), 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:pg69647:2:61
# text = They need owe nothing to a boon; nor, with the Pandavas free, need I either, any longer.”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	owe	owe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	xcomp	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boon	boon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Pandavas	Pandavas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	any	any	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Draupadi |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **owe** *not said to happen* | present | Draupadi *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  | to a boon *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme to boon=Goal |
| 3 | **need** | present |  | I |  |  |  | with the Pandavas free; either *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=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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