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title: He gave his own tent to his mother, who shared his wanderings; and f… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: He gave his own tent to his mother, who shared his wanderings; and for her, as for his followers, he gathered brightness from every smallest thing--from tulips and grasses, from animals and birds and insects. Who acts: defeat, mother. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, a
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 37

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He gave his own tent to his mother, who shared his wanderings; and for her, as for his followers, he gathered brightness from every smallest thing--from tulips and grasses, from animals and birds and insects.

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**Who acts:** defeat, mother · **What happens:** give, share, gather, wander · **To what, where:** own tent, spirit, wanderings, brightness, smallest thing

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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, mother), 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:pg69647:3:37
# text = He gave his own tent to his mother, who shared his wanderings; and for her, as for his followers, he gathered brightness from every smallest thing--from tulips and grasses, from animals and birds and insects.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	shared	share	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
29	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
30	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	tulips	tulip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	appos	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	grasses	grass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | defeat | defeat's own tent | spirit |  |  | to defeat's mother; as defeat's followers | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient tent=Theme |
| 2 | **share** | past | defeat's mother | defeat's wanderings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gather** | past | defeat | brightness |  | every smallest thing |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent brightness=Theme from thing=Source |
| 4 | **wander** |  | defeat |  |  |  |  |  | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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