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title: And the King and his sons and his brave knights all strove as to who… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the King and his sons and his brave knights all strove as to who should be first to meet single-handed the enemy at the gates. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 10

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And the King and his sons and his brave knights all strove as to who should be first to meet single-handed the enemy at the gates.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** strove, be, meet, hand · **To what, where:** single handed enemy, gates

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg69647:4:10
# text = And the King and his sons and his brave knights all strove as to who should be first to meet single-handed the enemy at the gates.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	strove	strove	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strove** | present | the King and King's sons and King's brave knights |  |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | should |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; first *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive |  | the single handed enemy |  | the gates |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **hand** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «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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