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title: There was once a Persian Prince of noble birth who lost all his mone… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: There was once a Persian Prince of noble birth who lost all his money: so he left his country and came to India, bringing with him his wife and three children. Who acts: Persian Prince, noble birth, Rahtore. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 52

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There was once a Persian Prince of noble birth who lost all his money: so he left his country and came to India, bringing with him his wife and three children.

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**Who acts:** Persian Prince, noble birth, Rahtore · **What happens:** be, lose, leave, come, bring · **To what, where:** money, country, India, wife

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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 (Persian Prince, noble birth, Rahtore), 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:pg69647:4:52
# text = There was once a Persian Prince of noble birth who lost all his money: so he left his country and came to India, bringing with him his wife and three children.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a Persian Prince of noble birth |  |  | there |  | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | past | noble birth | Rahtore's money |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality |
| 3 | **leave** | past | Rahtore | Rahtore's country |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | Rahtore *not said here* |  |  | India |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to india=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **bring** | gerund | Rahtore *not said here* |  | Rahtore's wife and three children |  |  | with Rahtore | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=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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