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title: And Ala-ud-din took with him mighty armies and great engines of war,… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Ala-ud-din took with him mighty armies and great engines of war, and by sheer force of numbers and deadly weapons he bore down the brave little body of knights fighting on the walls of their beloved city. Who acts: Ala ud din, din, knights. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 3

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And Ala-ud-din took with him mighty armies and great engines of war, and by sheer force of numbers and deadly weapons he bore down the brave little body of knights fighting on the walls of their beloved city.

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**Who acts:** Ala ud din, din, knights · **What happens:** take, bear down, fight · **To what, where:** mighty armies, brave little body, walls

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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, din, knights), 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:pg69647:4:3
# text = And Ala-ud-din took with him mighty armies and great engines of war, and by sheer force of numbers and deadly weapons he bore down the brave little body of knights fighting on the walls of their beloved city.
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	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	engines	engine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	sheer	sheer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
29	down	down	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
36	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Ala ud din | mighty armies and great engines of war |  |  |  | with King | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme |
| 2 | **bear down** | past | din | the brave little body of knights |  |  |  | by sheer force of numbers and deadly weapons | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 3 | **fight** | gerund | knights *not said here* |  |  | the walls of walls's beloved city |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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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