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title: Cruelty gave place to kindness, taking to giving, hating to loving--… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cruelty gave place to kindness, taking to giving, hating to loving--and for thirty-seven years there was peace and prosperity and goodwill in Delhi. Who acts: Cruelty, peace. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 3, with i
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 94

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Cruelty gave place to kindness, taking to giving, hating to loving--and for thirty-seven years there was peace and prosperity and goodwill in Delhi.

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**Who acts:** Cruelty, peace · **What happens:** give, take, hate, be · **To what, where:** place, kindness

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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 (Cruelty, peace), 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:pg69647:3:94
# text = Cruelty gave place to kindness, taking to giving, hating to loving--and for thirty-seven years there was peace and prosperity and goodwill in Delhi.
1	Cruelty	Cruelty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	hating	hate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	goodwill	goodwill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	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 | Cruelty | place | kindness |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent place=Theme to kindness=Recipient |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | Cruelty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | Cruelty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **hate** | gerund | Cruelty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to loving | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **be** | past | peace and prosperity and goodwill in Delhi |  |  | there | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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