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title: They had to bear thirst and hunger, pain and poverty; but the joyous… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: They had to bear thirst and hunger, pain and poverty; but the joyous spirit of the Tiger-boy carried them through all. Who acts: followers, joyous spirit. 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 a
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 35

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They had to bear thirst and hunger, pain and poverty; but the joyous spirit of the Tiger-boy carried them through all.

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**Who acts:** followers, joyous spirit · **What happens:** have, bear, carry · **To what, where:** thirst, followers, all

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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 (followers, joyous spirit), 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:pg69647:3:35
# text = They had to bear thirst and hunger, pain and poverty; but the joyous spirit of the Tiger-boy carried them through all.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	joyous	joyous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | followers *= follower* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | to-infinitive | followers *= follower* *not said here* | thirst and hunger and pain and poverty |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thirst=Patient |
| 3 | **carry** | past | the joyous spirit of the Tiger boy | followers *= follower* |  | all |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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