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title: So, “having knocked on the door of Penitence”, did they join battle. — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: So, “having knocked on the door of Penitence”, did they join battle. Who acts: nobles. 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 54

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So, “having knocked on the door of Penitence”, did they join battle.

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**Who acts:** nobles · **What happens:** have, knock, join · **To what, where:** door, battle · **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 (nobles), 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:pg69647:3:54
# text = So, “having knocked on the door of Penitence”, did they join battle.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
5	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Penitence	Penitence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **knock** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  | the door of Penitence |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on door=Location |
| 3 | **join** | past · do-support | nobles *= noble* | battle |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Patient |

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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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