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description: But when he sent to ask this, Rana Mal made a haughty answer--“No daughter of the Moon could wed with a slayer of cows.” Who acts: Ghyas, Rana, daughter. 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 an
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 81

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But when he sent to ask this, Rana Mal made a haughty answer--“No daughter of the Moon could wed with a slayer of cows.”

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**Who acts:** Ghyas, Rana, daughter · **What happens:** send, ask, make, wed · **To what, where:** this, haughty answer · **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 (Ghyas, Rana, daughter), 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:pg69647:3:81
# text = But when he sent to ask this, Rana Mal made a haughty answer--“No daughter of the Moon could wed with a slayer of cows.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	Rana	Rana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Mal	Mal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	haughty	haughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	wed	wed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	slayer	slayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Ghyas |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Ghyas *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient |
| 3 | **make** | past | Rana | a haughty answer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wed** *in a quote* | could | no daughter of the Moon |  |  |  |  | with a slayer of cows | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with slayer=Co-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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