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title: “Just so, my Prince,” said _Mihr-un-Nisa_, opening her other hand, f… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Just so, my Prince,” said _Mihr-un-Nisa_, opening her other hand, from which the second dove also flew happily away. Who acts: Prince, second dove. 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
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 77

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“Just so, my Prince,” said \_Mihr-un-Nisa\_, opening her other hand, from which the second dove also flew happily away.

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**Who acts:** Prince, second dove · **What happens:** say, open, fly away · **To what, where:** other hand · **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 (Prince, second dove), 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:pg69647:4:77
# text = “Just so, my Prince,” said _Mihr-un-Nisa_, opening her other hand, from which the second dove also flew happily away.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Mihr	mihr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Nisa	Nisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
30	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | my Prince |  |  |  |  | Mihr un *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **open** | gerund | my Prince *not said here* | un's other hand |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 3 | **fly away** | past | the second dove |  |  |  |  | which *obl*; away, happily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from which=Trajectory |

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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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