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title: Here also he married the lady whom he called “Maham”--“my Moon”--of… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Here also he married the lady whom he called “Maham”--“my Moon”--of whom we know only because of Baber’s great love for her. Who acts: defeat, we, Baber. 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 an
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 39

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Here also he married the lady whom he called “Maham”--“my Moon”--of whom we know only because of Baber’s great love for her.

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**Who acts:** defeat, we, Baber · **What happens:** marry, call, know, love · **To what, where:** lady · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (defeat, we, Baber), 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:pg69647:3:39
# text = Here also he married the lady whom he called “Maham”--“my Moon”--of whom we know only because of Baber’s great love for her.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Maham	Maham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
24	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	29	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	Baber	Baber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past | defeat | the lady |  | here |  | my Moon *obl* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | past | defeat |  | the lady |  |  | Maham *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient |
| 3 | **know** | present | we |  |  |  |  | because Baber's great love; for Baber; whom *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of whom=Stimulus |
| 4 | **love** |  | Baber |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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