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title: And perhaps she might some day have won it back, but for a sad thing… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And perhaps she might some day have won it back, but for a sad thing that befell her. Who acts: Delhi, sad thing. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 13

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And perhaps she might some day have won it back, but for a sad thing that befell her.

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**Who acts:** Delhi, sad thing · **What happens:** win back, befall · **To what, where:** kingdom, Delhi

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Delhi, sad thing), 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:pg69647:3:13
# text = And perhaps she might some day have won it back, but for a sad thing that befell her.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	befell	befall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win back** | might · perfect | Delhi | kingdom |  |  | day | a sad thing *obj*; perhaps *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary thing=Theme |
| 2 | **befall** | past | a sad thing | Delhi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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