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title: “If I am not here any longer, the King and my father will make peace… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: “If I am not here any longer, the King and my father will make peace,” was what she said in her heart. Who acts: mother, King, 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
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 86

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“If I am not here any longer, the King and my father will make peace,” was what she said in her heart.

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**Who acts:** mother, King, Shikhandi · **What happens:** not be, make, be, say · **To what, where:** peace, heart · **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 (mother, King, 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:pg69647:2:86
# text = “If I am not here any longer, the King and my father will make peace,” was what she said in her heart.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advcl	_	_
7	any	any	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	parataxis	_	_
17	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Shikhandi's mother *= mother* |  |  |  |  | here, long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | future | the King and my father | peace |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Product |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Shikhandi |  |  | Shikhandi's heart |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in heart=Manner |

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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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