Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 108
But when Ala-ud-din got Bhimsi alone and at his mercy, he carried him captive to his own camp.
Who acts: Ala ud din, Bhimsi · What happens: get, carry · To what, where: Bhimsi, din
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, Bhimsi), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 carried | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 got | advmod |
| 3 | Ala | Ala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 din | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ala | punct |
| 5 | ud | ud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 din | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ud | punct |
| 7 | din | din | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 carried | advcl |
| 9 | Bhimsi | Bhimsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obj |
| 10 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mercy | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 mercy | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mercy | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carried | nsubj |
| 17 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carried | obj |
| 19 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 carried | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 camp | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 camp | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 camp | amod |
| 23 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 captive | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Ala ud din | Bhimsi | Bhimsi's mercy conj; alone property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bhimsi=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | carry | past | Bhimsi | din | captive property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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