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title: But Baber, who more than anyone we know had loved being alive, said:… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Baber, who more than anyone we know had loved being alive, said: “No, that is not the most precious thing I have to give. Who acts: we, that, I. 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
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 62

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But Baber, who more than anyone we know had loved being alive, said: “No, that is not the most precious thing I have to give.

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**Who acts:** we, that, I · **What happens:** know, love, be, say, not be, have · **To what, where:** Baber, precious thing · **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 (we, that, I), 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:pg69647:3:62
# text = But Baber, who more than anyone we know had loved being alive, said: “No, that is not the most precious thing I have to give.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	Baber	Baber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
13	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	28	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **love** | past · perfect · passive |  | Baber |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** *not said to happen* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | the precious thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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