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title: Prithi Raja the Minstrel, mounted on Prithi Raja the King’s swiftest… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Prithi Raja the Minstrel, mounted on Prithi Raja the King’s swiftest charger, was at her side, and stooping lifted her to his saddle, and rode away swiftly to the gates of Delhi. Who acts: Prithi. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, O
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 139

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Prithi Raja the Minstrel, mounted on Prithi Raja the King’s swiftest charger, was at her side, and stooping lifted her to his saddle, and rode away swiftly to the gates of Delhi.

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**Who acts:** Prithi · **What happens:** mount, be, stoop, lift, ride away · **To what, where:** side, Prithi, saddle, gates

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prithi), 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:pg69647:1:139
# text = Prithi Raja the Minstrel, mounted on Prithi Raja the King’s swiftest charger, was at her side, and stooping lifted her to his saddle, and rode away swiftly to the gates of Delhi.
1	Prithi	Prithi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
2	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Prithi	Prithi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	swiftest	swift	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	charger	charger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	stooping	stoop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	nsubj	_	_
23	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | participle | Prithi *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Prithi Raja *obl:agent* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Prithi |  |  | Prithi's side |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stoop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lift** | past |  | Prithi |  | KING's saddle |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to saddle=Destination |
| 5 | **ride away** | past |  |  |  | the gates of Delhi |  | away, swiftly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to gate=Trajectory |

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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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