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title: But the Rajput warriors laughed him to scorn, and defeated him, and… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Rajput warriors laughed him to scorn, and defeated him, and kept safe their beauteous Lady of the Lotus. Who acts: Rajput warriors. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 100

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But the Rajput warriors laughed him to scorn, and defeated him, and kept safe their beauteous Lady of the Lotus.

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**Who acts:** Rajput warriors · **What happens:** laugh, scorn, defeat, keep · **To what, where:** din

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rajput warriors), 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:pg69647:3:100
# text = But the Rajput warriors laughed him to scorn, and defeated him, and kept safe their beauteous Lady of the Lotus.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Rajput	Rajput	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	scorn	scorn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
16	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	beauteous	beauteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl:agent	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Lotus	Lotus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | the Rajput warriors | din |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **scorn** | to-infinitive | the Rajput warriors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **defeat** | past | the Rajput warriors *not said here* | din |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | jewels's safe beauteous Lady of the Lotus *obl:agent* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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