Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 101

Then Ala-ud-din pretended to be very much ashamed that he had ever even imagined that Prince Bhimsi would let the Princess be taken captive by an enemy.

Who acts: Ala ud din, din, Bhimsi, enemy · What happens: pretend, be, have, imagine, let, take · To what, where: Princess

This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ala ud din, din, Bhimsi, enemy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 pretended	advmod
2	Ala	Ala	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 din	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Ala	punct
4	ud	ud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 din	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ud	punct
6	din	din	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pretended	nsubj
7	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	12 ashamed	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 ashamed	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADV	_	12 ashamed	advmod
12	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pretended	advcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ashamed	ccomp
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 imagined	advmod
17	even	even	ADV	_	18 imagined	advmod
18	imagined	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 had	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 let	mark
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Bhimsi	nmod:desc
21	Bhimsi	Bhimsi	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 let	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 let	aux
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 imagined	ccomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Princess	det
25	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 taken	nsubj:pass
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 taken	aux:pass
27	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 let	xcomp
28	captive	captive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 taken	xcomp
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 enemy	case
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 enemy	det
31	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 taken	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	Ala ud din		then		tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	Ala ud din not said here			ashamed property	tree rules
3	have	past	din				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	imagine	past	din not said here		ever		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	let	would	Bhimsi Prince				tree rules
6	take	infinitive · passive	a enemy	the Princess		captive property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Destination

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.

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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🌲 Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 101

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 101