--- title: They could not forgive her that, being a woman, she came before them… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics description: They could not forgive her that, being a woman, she came before them with face unveiled; that, being a woman, she did successfully the work of a man, and asked no woman’s reward. Who acts: people, woman, that, Delhi. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/3/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian tales of the great ones among m…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/) / [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/3/) / 10 # Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 10 They could not forgive her that, being a woman, she came before them with face unveiled; that, being a woman, she did successfully the work of a man, and asked no woman’s reward. **Who acts:** people, woman, that, Delhi, man · **What happens:** not forgive, be, come, unveil, do, ask · **To what, where:** Delhi, woman, face, work, reward This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, woman, that, Delhi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg69647:3:10 # text = They could not forgive her that, being a woman, she came before them with face unveiled; that, being a woman, she did successfully the work of a man, and asked no woman’s reward. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 forgive forgive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 14 before before ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 unveiled unveil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 28 successfully successfully ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 38 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’s 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 reward reward NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **forgive** | could | people | Delhi | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | gerund | | a woman | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | past | a woman | | | | before people | with face; Delhi *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Location | | 4 | **unveil** | participle | | face *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | gerund | that | a woman | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **do** | past | Delhi | the work of a man | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Delhi *not said here* | no woman's reward | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reward=Recipient | | 8 | **work** | | a man | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent | | 9 | **reward** | | no woman | | | | | | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/3/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/3/11/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/3/)