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title: But the land beyond the hills was calling Baber; and soon there came… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the land beyond the hills was calling Baber; and soon there came a chance to try once more for the throne of Delhi. Who acts: land. 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 pragmatics o
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 41

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But the land beyond the hills was calling Baber; and soon there came a chance to try once more for the throne of Delhi.

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**Who acts:** land · **What happens:** call, come, try · **To what, where:** Baber, chance · **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 (land), 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:pg69647:3:41
# text = But the land beyond the hills was calling Baber; and soon there came a chance to try once more for the throne of Delhi.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	Baber	Baber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · progressive | the land beyond the hills |  | Baber |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent baber=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** | past | the land beyond the hills *not said here* | a chance |  | there |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chance=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | to-infinitive | the land beyond the hills *not said here* | a chance *not said here* |  |  |  | for the throne of Delhi | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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