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title: At this Prithi Raj drew his sword and would have slain his brother,… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: At this Prithi Raj drew his sword and would have slain his brother, but their uncle stepped between, and Sanga escaped. Who acts: uncle, Sanga. 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 prag
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 33

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At this Prithi Raj drew his sword and would have slain his brother, but their uncle stepped between, and Sanga escaped.

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**Who acts:** uncle, Sanga · **What happens:** draw, slay, step, escape · **To what, where:** sword, Prithi Raj, brother

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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 (uncle, Sanga), 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:pg69647:4:33
# text = At this Prithi Raj drew his sword and would have slain his brother, but their uncle stepped between, and Sanga escaped.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Prithi	Prithi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Raj	Raj	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	Sanga	Sanga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past |  | Raj's sword |  | Prithi Raj  this |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 2 | **slay** | would · perfect |  | Raj's brother |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
| 3 | **step** | past | skin's uncle |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **escape** | past | Sanga |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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