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title: And they took their women down into the vaults beneath the city, whe… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they took their women down into the vaults beneath the city, where the Rajput woman was wont to go through fire to meet her lord who had died in battle. Who acts: armies, Rajput woman, lord. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Ope
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 6

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And they took their women down into the vaults beneath the city, where the Rajput woman was wont to go through fire to meet her lord who had died in battle.

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**Who acts:** armies, Rajput woman, lord · **What happens:** take down, be, go, meet, die · **To what, where:** women, vaults, fire, lord

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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 (armies, Rajput woman, lord), 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:pg69647:4:6
# text = And they took their women down into the vaults beneath the city, where the Rajput woman was wont to go through fire to meet her lord who had died in battle.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	vaults	vault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Rajput	Rajput	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	wont	wont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take down** | past | armies *= army* | armies's women |  | the vaults |  | beneath the city; down *property* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Rajput woman |  |  |  |  | wont *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | the Rajput woman *not said here* |  |  | fire |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through fire=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the Rajput woman *not said here* | Rajputana's lord |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **die** | past · perfect | Rajputana's lord |  |  |  |  | in battle | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in battle=Attribute |

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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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