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title: That night and the next, three hundred of his nobles did likewise, p… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: That night and the next, three hundred of his nobles did likewise, pouring upon the ground the wine which they had brought with them. Who acts: nobles. 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 
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 53

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That night and the next, three hundred of his nobles did likewise, pouring upon the ground the wine which they had brought with them.

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**Who acts:** nobles · **What happens:** do, pour, bring · **To what, where:** three hundred, wine

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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 (nobles), 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:pg69647:3:53
# text = That night and the next, three hundred of his nobles did likewise, pouring upon the ground the wine which they had brought with them.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	_
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
9	of	of	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	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	advcl	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | tale's nobles | three hundred |  |  | night | likewise *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pour** | gerund | tale's nobles *not said here* | the wine |  |  |  | upon the ground | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient |
| 3 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | the wine |  |  |  | with nobles *= noble* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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