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title: So was fulfilled the promise of Shiva--“She shall be first a daughte… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: So was fulfilled the promise of Shiva--“She shall be first a daughter: and then a son, Shikhandi, Maiden-Knight.” Who acts: Shiva. 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 eve
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 98

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So was fulfilled the promise of Shiva--“She shall be first a daughter: and then a son, Shikhandi, Maiden-Knight.”

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**Who acts:** Shiva · **What happens:** fulfil, be, promise · **To what, where:** promise, Shiva

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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 (Shiva), 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:pg69647:2:98
# text = So was fulfilled the promise of Shiva--“She shall be first a daughter: and then a son, Shikhandi, Maiden-Knight.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Shiva	Shiva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	nmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Shikhandi	Shikhandi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fulfil** | past · passive |  | the promise of Shiva |  |  |  | a son *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | Shiva |  |  |  |  | a daughter *nsubj*; first *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **promise** |  |  | Shiva |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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