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title: And many years afterwards, when he became Emperor, he married her, a… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And many years afterwards, when he became Emperor, he married her, and changed her name to _Nŭr Mahal_, “the Light of the Palace”. Who acts: other, un. 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 
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 79

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And many years afterwards, when he became Emperor, he married her, and changed her name to \_Nŭr Mahal\_, “the Light of the Palace”.

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**Who acts:** other, un · **What happens:** become, marry, change, name, light · **To what, where:** un, name, Nŭr Mahal, Palace

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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 (other, un), 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:pg69647:4:79
# text = And many years afterwards, when he became Emperor, he married her, and changed her name to _Nŭr Mahal_, “the Light of the Palace”.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Nŭr	Nŭr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Mahal	Mahal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | other |  |  |  | year | Emperor *xcomp*; afterwards *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **marry** | past | other | un |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 3 | **change** | past | other *not said here* | un's name | Nŭr Mahal |  |  | the Light of the Palace *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** |  | un |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **light** *in a quote* |  |  | the Palace |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon 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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