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Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 13

And when night fell, the last of the Rajputs had left the city, having laid, each man, at the feet of the true knight and champion of the defenceless, a full sheaf of the unknightly ones.

Who acts: night, last, man · What happens: fall, leave, have, lay · To what, where: city, man, feet

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 (night, last, man), 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

ccadvmodnsubjadvclpunctdetnsubj:outercasedetoblauxdetobjpunctadvclxcomppunctdetoblpunctcasedetoblcasedetamodnmodccconjmarkdetaclpunctdetamodconjcasedetamodnmodpunctrootAndCCONJwhenADVnightNOUNfellVERB,PUNCTtheDETlastADJofADPtheDETRajputsNOUNhadAUXleftVERBtheDETcityNOUN,PUNCThavingVERBlaidVERB,PUNCTeachDETmanNOUN,PUNCTatADPtheDETfeetNOUNofADPtheDETtrueADJknightNOUNandCCONJchampionNOUNofSCONJtheDETdefencelessADJ,PUNCTaDETfullADJsheafNOUNofADPtheDETunknightlyADJonesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_12 leftcc
2whenwhenADVPronType=Int4 felladvmod
3nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing4 fellnsubj
4fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 leftadvcl
5,,PUNCT_4 fellpunct
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 lastdet
7lastlastADJDegree=Pos12 leftnsubj:outer
8ofofADP_10 Rajputscase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Rajputsdet
10RajputsrajputNOUNNumber=Plur7 lastobl
11hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 leftaux
12leftleaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 citydet
14citycityNOUNNumber=Sing12 leftobj
15,,PUNCT_16 havingpunct
16havinghaveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part12 leftadvcl
17laidlayVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 havingxcomp
18,,PUNCT_20 manpunct
19eacheachDETPronType=Tot20 mandet
20manmanNOUNNumber=Sing16 havingobl
21,,PUNCT_24 feetpunct
22atatADP_24 feetcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 feetdet
24feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur16 havingobl
25ofofADP_28 knightcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 knightdet
27truetrueADJDegree=Pos28 knightamod
28knightknightNOUNNumber=Sing24 feetnmod
29andandCCONJ_30 championcc
30championchampionNOUNNumber=Sing28 knightconj
31ofofSCONJ_33 defencelessmark
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 defencelessdet
33defencelessdefencelessADJDegree=Pos30 championacl
34,,PUNCT_37 sheafpunct
35aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art37 sheafdet
36fullfullADJDegree=Pos37 sheafamod
37sheafsheafNOUNNumber=Sing28 knightconj
38ofofADP_41 onescase
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 onesdet
40unknightlyunknightlyADJDegree=Pos41 onesamod
41onesoneNOUNNumber=Plur37 sheafnmod
42..PUNCT_12 leftpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1fallpastnightvn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2leavepast · perfectthe last of the Rajputsthe cityvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme
3havegerundthe last of the Rajputs not said hereeach manthe feet of the true knight and champion and a full sheaf of the unknightly onestree rules
4layparticipleeach man not said herevn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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