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title: At its gates stood Rahtore Beeda, the perfect host: his horse stood… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: At its gates stood Rahtore Beeda, the perfect host: his horse stood beside him ready for a journey. Who acts: horse. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 36

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At its gates stood Rahtore Beeda, the perfect host: his horse stood beside him ready for a journey.

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**Who acts:** horse · **What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** Rahtore, gates

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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 (horse), 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:pg69647:4:36
# text = At its gates stood Rahtore Beeda, the perfect host: his horse stood beside him ready for a journey.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Rahtore	Rahtore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	Beeda	Beeda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | Rahtore |  | sanctuary's gates |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rahtore=Theme at gate=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Rahtore's horse |  |  |  |  | beside Rahtore; ready *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location |

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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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