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title: So, on his birthday, the King of Death sent his messengers, to bring… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: So, on his birthday, the King of Death sent his messengers, to bring Kamil away to the Kingdom of Death. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 4, 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 4, sentence 106

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So, on his birthday, the King of Death sent his messengers, to bring Kamil away to the Kingdom of Death.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** send, bring away · **To what, where:** messengers, birthday, Kamil, Kingdom

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg69647:4:107
# text = So, on his birthday, the King of Death sent his messengers, to bring Kamil away to the Kingdom of Death.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	Kamil	Kamil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	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 | the King of Death | Kamil's messengers |  | Kamil's birthday |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme |
| 2 | **bring away** | to-infinitive | the King of Death *not said here* | Kamil | the Kingdom of Death |  |  | away *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kamil=Theme to kingdom=Destination |

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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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