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title: And three days later he did indeed pass out from the life which he h… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And three days later he did indeed pass out from the life which he had loved so well, and had laid down so lovingly. Who acts: Humayun. 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 69

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And three days later he did indeed pass out from the life which he had loved so well, and had laid down so lovingly.

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**Who acts:** Humayun · **What happens:** pass out, love, lay down · **To what, where:** life

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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 (Humayun), 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:pg69647:3:69
# text = And three days later he did indeed pass out from the life which he had loved so well, and had laid down so lovingly.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	lovingly	lovingly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	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 | **pass out** | past · do-support | Humayun |  |  |  |  | from the life; indeed, late *property* | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from life=Stimulus |
| 2 | **love** | past · perfect · passive |  | the life |  |  |  | Humayun *nsubj*; well *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lay down** | past · perfect | Humayun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | lovingly *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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