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title: “But when you said that, you only meant that he should never look ol… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: “But when you said that, you only meant that he should never look older than his thirteenth year, though he might live and live as long as he liked,” said clever goddess Parvati. Who acts: you, Shiva, clever goddess. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 5, sentence 15

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“But when you said that, you only meant that he should never look older than his thirteenth year, though he might live and live as long as he liked,” said clever goddess Parvati.

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**Who acts:** you, Shiva, clever goddess · **What happens:** say, mean, not look, live, like · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Shiva, clever goddess), 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:pg69647:5:15
# text = “But when you said that, you only meant that he should never look older than his thirteenth year, though he might live and live as long as he liked,” said clever goddess Parvati.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	ccomp	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
16	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	thirteenth	thirteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
35	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
36	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	Parvati	Parvati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **look** *in a quote* | should | Shiva |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **live** *in a quote* | might | Shiva |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **live** *in a quote* | infinitive | Shiva *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **like** *in a quote* | past | Shiva |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | clever goddess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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