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title: And her lovely face is still to be seen painted on ivory and vellum… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And her lovely face is still to be seen painted on ivory and vellum among the treasures of the ancient city of Delhi. Who acts: lovely face. 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 pragmat
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 81

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And her lovely face is still to be seen painted on ivory and vellum among the treasures of the ancient city of Delhi.

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**Who acts:** lovely face · **What happens:** be, paint, treasure · **To what, where:** lovely face, ivory, ancient city

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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 (lovely face), 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:pg69647:4:82
# text = And her lovely face is still to be seen painted on ivory and vellum among the treasures of the ancient city of Delhi.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	vellum	vellum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · passive |  | un's lovely face |  |  | still | see *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **paint** | participle | un's lovely face *not said here* |  |  | ivory and vellum |  | among the treasures of the ancient city of Delhi | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ivory=Destination |
| 3 | **treasure** |  |  | the ancient city of Delhi |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession 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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