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title: “Will you not let the King of Death send his slow-moving grey-black… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Will you not let the King of Death send his slow-moving grey-black buffalo for the tired Earth-people?” Who acts: you, King. 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 cl
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 5, sentence 9

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“Will you not let the King of Death send his slow-moving grey-black buffalo for the tired Earth-people?”

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**Who acts:** you, King · **What happens:** not let, send, move · **To what, where:** grey black buffalo · **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, King), 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:pg69647:5:9
# text = “Will you not let the King of Death send his slow-moving grey-black buffalo for the tired Earth-people?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
12	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
15	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **send** *in a quote* | present | the King of Death | King's grey black buffalo |  |  |  | for the tired Earth people | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme |
| 3 | **move** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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