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title: And the baby born by the roadside grew very beautiful, and was calle… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the baby born by the roadside grew very beautiful, and was called _Mihr-un-Nisa_, which means “the Sun of Womankind”. Who acts: baby, Mihr un. 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 p
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 68

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And the baby born by the roadside grew very beautiful, and was called \_Mihr-un-Nisa\_, which means “the Sun of Womankind”.

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**Who acts:** baby, Mihr un · **What happens:** bear, grow, call, mean · **To what, where:** baby, Mihr un, Sun · **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 (baby, Mihr un), 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:pg69647:4:68
# text = And the baby born by the roadside grew very beautiful, and was called _Mihr-un-Nisa_, which means “the Sun of Womankind”.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	roadside	roadside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Mihr	Mihr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Nisa	Nisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Womankind	Womankind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  | the baby *not said here* |  |  |  | by the roadside | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the baby |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | past · passive | the baby *not said here* | Mihr un |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **mean** | present | Mihr un | the Sun of Womankind |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Topic |

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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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