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title: “Battle was joined at the time of early morning prayers”; and by mid… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Battle was joined at the time of early morning prayers”; and by midday Baber the Tiger was lord of Delhi and Agra. 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 of every clause.
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 44

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“Battle was joined at the time of early morning prayers”; and by midday Baber the Tiger was lord of Delhi and Agra.

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**What happens:** join, be · **To what, where:** Battle, Baber lord

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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: 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:pg69647:3:44
# text = “Battle was joined at the time of early morning prayers”; and by midday Baber the Tiger was lord of Delhi and Agra.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
17	Baber	Baber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Agra	Agra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | Battle |  |  | time |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Baber lord |  |  |  | by midday; of Delhi and Agra | 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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