---
title: Ala-ud-din pretended to be very grateful, and the courteous knight B… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ala-ud-din pretended to be very grateful, and the courteous knight Bhimsi was sorry for the enemy whom he had defeated. Who acts: courteous knight. 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 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/3/106/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian tales of the great ones among m…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/) / [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/3/) / 106

# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 106

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ala-ud-din pretended to be very grateful, and the courteous knight Bhimsi was sorry for the enemy whom he had defeated.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** courteous knight · **What happens:** pretend, be, defeat · **To what, where:** enemy

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (courteous knight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg69647:3:106
# text = Ala-ud-din pretended to be very grateful, and the courteous knight Bhimsi was sorry for the enemy whom he had defeated.
1	Ala	ala	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	ud	ud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	din	din	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	courteous	courteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	Bhimsi	Bhimsi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | past |  |  |  |  |  | ala ud din | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | grateful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the courteous knight |  |  |  |  | for the enemy; sorry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **defeat** | past · perfect · passive |  | the enemy |  |  |  | Bhimsi *nsubj* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/3/105/)
- next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/3/107/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/3/)