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title: Then the King would have died; but a water-carrier on the opposite b… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the King would have died; but a water-carrier on the opposite bank saw the King’s trouble, and brought him his own skin-bags, on which Humayun floated safely to land. Who acts: King, water carrier, Humayun. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Corn
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 74

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Then the King would have died; but a water-carrier on the opposite bank saw the King’s trouble, and brought him his own skin-bags, on which Humayun floated safely to land.

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**Who acts:** King, water carrier, Humayun · **What happens:** die, see, bring, float, land, trouble · **To what, where:** trouble, own skin bags, king

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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 (King, water carrier, 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:pg69647:3:74
# text = Then the King would have died; but a water-carrier on the opposite bank saw the King’s trouble, and brought him his own skin-bags, on which Humayun floated safely to land.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	carrier	carrier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
34	Humayun	Humayun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
36	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | would · perfect | the King |  |  |  | then |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **see** | past | a water carrier on the opposite bank | the King's trouble |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trouble=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bring** | past | a water carrier on the opposite bank *not said here* | king's own skin bags | king |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bag=Theme |
| 4 | **float** | past | Humayun |  |  |  |  | which *obl*; safely *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **land** | to-infinitive | Humayun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **trouble** |  | the King |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition 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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