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title: And again, for she seemed more beautiful still to him every day, he… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And again, for she seemed more beautiful still to him every day, he changed it to _Nŭr Jehan_, “the Light of the World”. Who acts: un, other. 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 pragma
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 80

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And again, for she seemed more beautiful still to him every day, he changed it to \_Nŭr Jehan\_, “the Light of the World”.

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**Who acts:** un, other · **What happens:** seem, change, light · **To what, where:** other, name, Nŭr, World

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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 (un, other), 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:pg69647:4:80
# text = And again, for she seemed more beautiful still to him every day, he changed it to _Nŭr Jehan_, “the Light of the World”.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Nŭr	Nŭr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	Jehan	Jehan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | un |  | other |  | again; still; day | beautiful *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **change** | past | other | name | Nŭr |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **light** *in a quote* |  |  | the World |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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