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title: And Shikhandi sat down in the house, and brooded, heeding not time n… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Shikhandi sat down in the house, and brooded, heeding not time nor self, in her great desire to save her people. 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
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 89

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And Shikhandi sat down in the house, and brooded, heeding not time nor self, in her great desire to save her people.

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**Who acts:** Shikhandi · **What happens:** sit down, brood, heed, save, desire · **To what, where:** house, great desire, people, 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:pg69647:2:89
# text = And Shikhandi sat down in the house, and brooded, heeding not time nor self, in her great desire to save her people.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Shikhandi	Shikhandi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	brooded	brood	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	heeding	heed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
16	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | Shikhandi |  |  | the house |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location |
| 2 | **brood** | past | Shikhandi *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **heed** | gerund | Shikhandi *not said here* |  |  | Shikhandi's great desire | time |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **save** | to-infinitive | Shikhandi *not said here* | people | Shikhandi |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary people=Theme |
| 5 | **desire** |  | Shikhandi |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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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