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title: Again: “I could not, on account of one or two defeats, sit down and… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Again: “I could not, on account of one or two defeats, sit down and look idly around me”, he tells us; and we find him getting to work again immediately. Who acts: defeat, we. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 3, with 
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 32

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Again: “I could not, on account of one or two defeats, sit down and look idly around me”, he tells us; and we find him getting to work again immediately.

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**Who acts:** defeat, we · **What happens:** sit down, look, tell, find, get, work · **To what, where:** us, defeat, one defeats · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (defeat, we), 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:pg69647:3:32
# text = Again: “I could not, on account of one or two defeats, sit down and look idly around me”, he tells us; and we find him getting to work again immediately.
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
14	defeats	defeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	idly	idly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	around	around	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	xcomp	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	again	again	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | around defeat; idly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around i=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | defeat |  | us |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
| 4 | **find** | present | we | defeat |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | gerund | defeat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **work** | to-infinitive | defeat *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **account** *in a quote* |  |  | one defeats |  |  |  |  | nom account «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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