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title: And Ala-ud-din came walking carefully across this carpet of the dead… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Ala-ud-din came walking carefully across this carpet of the dead, into a fortress of which the gates were wide. Who acts: Ala ud din, gates. 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 pra
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 14

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And Ala-ud-din came walking carefully across this carpet of the dead, into a fortress of which the gates were wide.

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**Who acts:** Ala ud din, gates · **What happens:** come, walk, be · **To what, where:** carpet

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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 (Ala ud din, gates), 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:pg69647:4:14
# text = And Ala-ud-din came walking carefully across this carpet of the dead, into a fortress of which the gates were wide.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
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	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	across	across	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fortress	fortress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Ala ud din |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | Ala ud din *not said here* |  |  | this carpet of the dead |  | into a fortress *result*; carefully *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into fortress=Result |
| 3 | **is** | past | the gates |  |  |  |  | of a fortress; wide *property* | tree rules |

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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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