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title: Send the King of Death to take us to the Kingdom of Peace and Forget… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Send the King of Death to take us to the Kingdom of Peace and Forgetfulness and Quiet Sleep.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 5, sentence 2

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Send the King of Death to take us to the Kingdom of Peace and Forgetfulness and Quiet Sleep.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** send, take · **To what, where:** King, us, Kingdom

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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), 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:pg69647:5:2
# text = Send the King of Death to take us to the Kingdom of Peace and Forgetfulness and Quiet Sleep.”
1	Send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Peace	Peace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Forgetfulness	Forgetfulness	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	Quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | imperative | you *not said here* | the King of Death |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | us | the Kingdom of Peace and Forgetfulness and Quiet Sleep |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme to kingdom=Destination |

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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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