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title: Will you have him perfect in every way, beautiful and good and cleve… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Will you have him perfect in every way, beautiful and good and clever, and loved by all the world, but doomed to be no older than his thirteenth year? Who acts: you. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 4, with its depend
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 87

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Will you have him perfect in every way, beautiful and good and clever, and loved by all the world, but doomed to be no older than his thirteenth year?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** have, love, doom, not be · **To what, where:** Shiva

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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 (you), 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:pg69647:4:88
# text = Will you have him perfect in every way, beautiful and good and clever, and loved by all the world, but doomed to be no older than his thirteenth year?
1	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	no	no	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	xcomp	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	thirteenth	thirteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | future | you | Shiva |  |  |  | perfect *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **love** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by all world | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **doom** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |

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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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