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title: And that is why to this day, old and young, boys and babies, all ali… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And that is why to this day, old and young, boys and babies, all alike, ride, when the great god wills, upon the grey-black buffalo, as it makes its slow-moving way to the quiet Kingdom of Death. Who acts: that, boys, great god wills. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, a
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 5, sentence 25

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And that is why to this day, old and young, boys and babies, all alike, ride, when the great god wills, upon the grey-black buffalo, as it makes its slow-moving way to the quiet Kingdom of Death.

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**Who acts:** that, boys, great god wills · **What happens:** be, ride, make, move · **To what, where:** way

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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 (that, boys, great god wills), 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:pg69647:5:25
# text = And that is why to this day, old and young, boys and babies, all alike, ride, when the great god wills, upon the grey-black buffalo, as it makes its slow-moving way to the quiet Kingdom of Death.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
13	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
18	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
20	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	wills	will	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
38	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
39	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
42	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ride** | infinitive | boys and babies |  |  |  | day |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | present | the great god wills upon the grey black buffalo |  |  |  |  | buffalo *nsubj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **move** | gerund | the great god wills upon the grey black buffalo *not said here* | way |  |  |  | to the quiet Kingdom of Death *result*; buffalo *nmod:poss* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent way=Theme to kingdom=Result |

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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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