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description: Then Tughlak demanded at once, and in cash, a whole year’s tribute to be paid to Delhi. Who acts: Tughlak. 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 82

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Then Tughlak demanded at once, and in cash, a whole year’s tribute to be paid to Delhi.

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**Who acts:** Tughlak · **What happens:** demand, pay · **To what, where:** tribute, Delhi

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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 (Tughlak), 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:pg69647:3:82
# text = Then Tughlak demanded at once, and in cash, a whole year’s tribute to be paid to Delhi.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Tughlak	Tughlak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | Tughlak | a whole year's tribute in cash |  |  | then |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** | to-infinitive · passive | Tughlak *not said here* | a whole year's tribute in cash *not said here* | Delhi |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» |

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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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