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title: And when night fell, the last of the Rajputs had left the city, havi… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 13

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And when night fell, the last of the Rajputs had left the city, having laid, each man, at the feet of the true knight and champion of the defenceless, a full sheaf of the unknightly ones.

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**Who acts:** night, last, man · **What happens:** fall, leave, have, lay · **To what, where:** city, man, feet

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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 (night, last, man), 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:pg69647:4:13
# text = And when night fell, the last of the Rajputs had left the city, having laid, each man, at the feet of the true knight and champion of the defenceless, a full sheaf of the unknightly ones.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj:outer	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Rajputs	rajput	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	defenceless	defenceless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	unknightly	unknightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | night |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | past · perfect | the last of the Rajputs | the city |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | the last of the Rajputs *not said here* | each man |  | the feet of the true knight and champion and a full sheaf of the unknightly ones |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lay** | participle | each man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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