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title: Then Ala-ud-din pretended to be very much ashamed that he had ever e… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Ala-ud-din pretended to be very much ashamed that he had ever even imagined that Prince Bhimsi would let the Princess be taken captive by an enemy. Who acts: Ala ud din, din, Bhimsi, enemy. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Ope
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 101

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Then Ala-ud-din pretended to be very much ashamed that he had ever even imagined that Prince Bhimsi would let the Princess be taken captive by an enemy.

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**Who acts:** Ala ud din, din, Bhimsi, enemy · **What happens:** pretend, be, have, imagine, let, take · **To what, where:** Princess

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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 (Ala ud din, din, Bhimsi, enemy), 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:pg69647:3:101
# text = Then Ala-ud-din pretended to be very much ashamed that he had ever even imagined that Prince Bhimsi would let the Princess be taken captive by an enemy.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	Ala	Ala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ud	ud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	din	din	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:desc	_	_
21	Bhimsi	Bhimsi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
28	captive	captive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | past | Ala ud din |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | Ala ud din *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | din |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **imagine** | past | din *not said here* |  |  |  | ever |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **let** | would | Bhimsi  Prince |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | infinitive · passive | a enemy | the Princess |  |  |  | captive *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=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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