--- title: And the men and women and beasts and birds and flower-people went to… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics description: And the men and women and beasts and birds and flower-people went to the great god and said: “We are weary, and there is no room for us on the Earth; we are the things that must pass. Who acts: men, We, room, things. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/5/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian tales of the great ones among m…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/) / [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/5/) / 1 # Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 5, sentence 1 And the men and women and beasts and birds and flower-people went to the great god and said: “We are weary, and there is no room for us on the Earth; we are the things that must pass. **Who acts:** men, We, room, things · **What happens:** go, say, be, pass · **To what, where:** things · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, We, room, things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg69647:5:1 # text = And the men and women and beasts and birds and flower-people went to the great god and said: “We are weary, and there is no room for us on the Earth; we are the things that must pass. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 14 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 god god NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 weary weary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 29 expl _ _ 29 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 30 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 31 det _ _ 31 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nmod _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 38 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 42 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 nsubj _ _ 43 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the men and women and beasts and birds and flower people | | | | | to the great god | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to god=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the men and women and beasts and birds and flower people *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | We | | | | | weary *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** *in a quote* | present | no room for us on the Earth | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | we | the things | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **pass** *in a quote* | must | the things | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [Opening, part 4, 152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/4/152/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/5/2/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/5/)