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title: So yet once more, he sallied forth against Chittore long years after… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: So yet once more, he sallied forth against Chittore long years afterwards, when the Baby-King was full grown, and with his twelve brave sons, and Bhimsi, and the other brave Rajput princes, kept faithful guard over the honour of knighthood in Rajputana. Who acts: he, other brave Rajput princes. A se
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 2

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So yet once more, he sallied forth against Chittore long years afterwards, when the Baby-King was full grown, and with his twelve brave sons, and Bhimsi, and the other brave Rajput princes, kept faithful guard over the honour of knighthood in Rajputana.

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**Who acts:** he, other brave Rajput princes · **What happens:** sally, grow, keep, honour · **To what, where:** twelve brave sons, Baby King, faithful guard, honour, knighthood

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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 (he, other brave Rajput princes), 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:pg69647:4:2
# text = So yet once more, he sallied forth against Chittore long years afterwards, when the Baby-King was full grown, and with his twelve brave sons, and Bhimsi, and the other brave Rajput princes, kept faithful guard over the honour of knighthood in Rajputana.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sallied	sally	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	against	against	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Chittore	Chittore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	Baby	Baby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
27	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
28	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	Bhimsi	Bhimsi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
37	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	Rajput	rajput	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	_
42	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	over	over	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	knighthood	knighthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Rajputana	Rajputana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sally** | past | he | King's twelve brave sons |  |  | yet; year | forth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past · passive |  | the Baby King |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | participle | the other brave Rajput princes *not said here* | faithful guard |  | the honour of knighthood in Rajputana |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent guard=Theme over honour=Location |
| 4 | **honour** |  |  | knighthood in Rajputana |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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