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description: And Shikhandi, sad at heart that she was the cause of all this trouble, wandered forth to lose herself. Who acts: Shikhandi. 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 cla
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 85

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And Shikhandi, sad at heart that she was the cause of all this trouble, wandered forth to lose herself.

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**Who acts:** Shikhandi · **What happens:** be, wander, lose · **To what, where:** cause, Shikhandi

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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 (Shikhandi), 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:pg69647:2:85
# text = And Shikhandi, sad at heart that she was the cause of all this trouble, wandered forth to lose herself.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	Shikhandi	Shikhandi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Shikhandi | the cause |  |  |  | of all trouble | tree rules |
| 2 | **wander** | past | Shikhandi |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | to-infinitive | Shikhandi *not said here* | Shikhandi |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Eventuality |

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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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