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title: Kabul fell to him when he was eighteen; and here for ten years he li… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kabul fell to him when he was eighteen; and here for ten years he lived peacefully, caring for his mother and grandmother, his aunts and sisters, and all his people who had been faithful to him. Who acts: Kabul, defeat, people. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 38

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Kabul fell to him when he was eighteen; and here for ten years he lived peacefully, caring for his mother and grandmother, his aunts and sisters, and all his people who had been faithful to him.

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**Who acts:** Kabul, defeat, people · **What happens:** fall, be, live, care · **To what, where:** defeat, eighteen

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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 (Kabul, defeat, people), 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:pg69647:3:38
# text = Kabul fell to him when he was eighteen; and here for ten years he lived peacefully, caring for his mother and grandmother, his aunts and sisters, and all his people who had been faithful to him.
1	Kabul	Kabul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	caring	care	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	aunts	aunt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	34	det:predet	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	cop	_	_
38	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Kabul |  | defeat | here |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot |
| 2 | **is a** | past | defeat | eighteen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past | defeat |  |  |  |  | peacefully *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **care** | gerund | defeat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for defeat's mother and grandmother and defeat's aunts and sisters | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for mother=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past · perfect | defeat's people |  | defeat |  |  | who *nsubj*; faithful *property* | tree rules |

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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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