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title: And his tenderness and love and thoughtfulness were as his courage a… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And his tenderness and love and thoughtfulness were as his courage and good cheer. Who acts: tenderness. 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 36

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And his tenderness and love and thoughtfulness were as his courage and good cheer.

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**Who acts:** tenderness · **What happens:** be

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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 (tenderness), 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:pg69647:3:36
# text = And his tenderness and love and thoughtfulness were as his courage and good cheer.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	thoughtfulness	thoughtfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | defeat's tenderness and love and thoughtfulness |  |  |  |  | as defeat's courage and good cheer; defeat *nmod:poss*; good cheer *conj* | 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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