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title: She wore the dress of a man; but the peasant saw her jewels gleaming… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: She wore the dress of a man; but the peasant saw her jewels gleaming, as she slept unprotected in that lonely spot. Who acts: Delhi, peasant, jewels. 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 th
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 17

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She wore the dress of a man; but the peasant saw her jewels gleaming, as she slept unprotected in that lonely spot.

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**Who acts:** Delhi, peasant, jewels · **What happens:** wear, see, gleam, sleep · **To what, where:** dress, jewels, lonely spot

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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, peasant, jewels), 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:pg69647:3:17
# text = She wore the dress of a man; but the peasant saw her jewels gleaming, as she slept unprotected in that lonely spot.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	unprotected	unprotected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | Delhi | the dress of a man |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | the peasant | Delhi's jewels |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jewel=Stimulus |
| 3 | **gleam** | gerund | Delhi's jewels *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sleep** | past | Delhi |  |  | that lonely spot |  | unprotected *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in spot=Location |

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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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