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title: And the women wore their most beautiful garments, to walk down to th… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the women wore their most beautiful garments, to walk down to the vaults, a long line of beauty and courage led by the queen of beauty, the Lotus-Lady herself. Who acts: women. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 4, 
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 8

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And the women wore their most beautiful garments, to walk down to the vaults, a long line of beauty and courage led by the queen of beauty, the Lotus-Lady herself.

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**Who acts:** women · **What happens:** wear, walk down, lead · **To what, where:** beautiful garments, Lotus Lady, courage

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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:pg69647:4:8
# text = And the women wore their most beautiful garments, to walk down to the vaults, a long line of beauty and courage led by the queen of beauty, the Lotus-Lady herself.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	vaults	vault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	Lotus	Lotus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
35	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | the women | women's beautiful garments |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent garment=Source |
| 2 | **walk down** | to-infinitive | the women *not said here* | the Lotus Lady |  |  |  | to the vaults *result*; Rajputana *obl*; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to vault=Result |
| 3 | **lead** | participle |  | courage *not said here* |  |  |  | by the queen of beauty | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by queen=Destination |

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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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