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title: So Ala-ud-din waged war on Chittore in order to capture the lovely L… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Ala-ud-din waged war on Chittore in order to capture the lovely Lotus-Lady. Who acts: Ala ud din. 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 99

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So Ala-ud-din waged war on Chittore in order to capture the lovely Lotus-Lady.

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**Who acts:** Ala ud din · **What happens:** wage, capture · **To what, where:** war, Chittore, lovely Lotus Lady

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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 (Ala ud din), 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:pg69647:3:99
# text = So Ala-ud-din waged war on Chittore in order to capture the lovely Lotus-Lady.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	Ala	Ala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ud	ud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	din	din	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	waged	wage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Chittore	Chittore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	capture	capture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	Lotus	Lotus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wage** | past | Ala ud din | war |  | Chittore |  | in order | tree rules |
| 2 | **capture** | to-infinitive | Ala ud din *not said here* | the lovely Lotus Lady |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme |

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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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