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title: “Nay--not while he is my guest,” said Rahtore Beeda, the perfect hos… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Nay--not while he is my guest,” said Rahtore Beeda, the perfect host, drawing his sword. Who acts: Rahtore, guest. 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 47

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“Nay--not while he is my guest,” said Rahtore Beeda, the perfect host, drawing his sword.

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**Who acts:** Rahtore, guest · **What happens:** not be, say, draw · **To what, where:** guest, sword · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Rahtore, guest), 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:pg69647:4:47
# text = “Nay--not while he is my guest,” said Rahtore Beeda, the perfect host, drawing his sword.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Rahtore	Rahtore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
14	Beeda	Beeda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | Rahtore | my guest |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | my guest |  |  |  |  | Rahtore *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **draw** | gerund | my guest *not said here* | Rahtore's sword |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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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