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title: The women rode on camels, slung in cages on either side of the drive… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The women rode on camels, slung in cages on either side of the driver; and most of their luggage also was carried in this way. Who acts: women. 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 prag
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 55

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The women rode on camels, slung in cages on either side of the driver; and most of their luggage also was carried in this way.

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**Who acts:** women · **What happens:** ride, sling, carry · **To what, where:** camels, cages, most, way

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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 (women), 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:pg69647:4:55
# text = The women rode on camels, slung in cages on either side of the driver; and most of their luggage also was carried in this way.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	slung	sling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cages	cage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	luggage	luggage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | the women |  |  | camels |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sling** | participle |  | camels *not said here* |  | cages on either side of the driver |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in cage=Destination |
| 3 | **carry** | past · passive |  | most of women's luggage |  | this way |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in way=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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