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title: The Perfect Host — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Perfect Host 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 18

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The Perfect Host

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**To what, where:** Perfect Host

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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: 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:pg69647:4:18
# text = The Perfect Host
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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