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title: Be unafraid as I am unafraid: and prepare to defend the kingdom. — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be unafraid as I am unafraid: and prepare to defend the kingdom. Who acts: you, I. 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 83

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Be unafraid as I am unafraid: and prepare to defend the kingdom.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** be, prepare, defend · **To what, where:** kingdom

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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, I), 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:pg69647:2:83
# text = Be unafraid as I am unafraid: and prepare to defend the kingdom.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	unafraid	unafraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	unafraid	unafraid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unafraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | as unafraid | tree rules |
| 3 | **prepare** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **defend** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Beneficiary |

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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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