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title: But Ayeshi, his beloved son, had the King sent secretly beforehand t… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Ayeshi, his beloved son, had the King sent secretly beforehand to a place of safety, that the race of warriors might still continue. Who acts: Ayeshi, King, race, warriors. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 4, with
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 12

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But Ayeshi, his beloved son, had the King sent secretly beforehand to a place of safety, that the race of warriors might still continue.

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**Who acts:** Ayeshi, King, race, warriors · **What happens:** have, send, continue, race · **To what, where:** place

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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 (Ayeshi, King, race, warriors), 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:pg69647:4:12
# text = But Ayeshi, his beloved son, had the King sent secretly beforehand to a place of safety, that the race of warriors might still continue.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	Ayeshi	Ayeshi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	beforehand	beforehand	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Ayeshi |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | past | the King |  |  | a place of safety |  | beforehand *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to place=Destination |
| 3 | **continue** | might | the race of warriors |  |  |  | still |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **race** |  | warriors |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: of=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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