Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 6

And they took their women down into the vaults beneath the city, where the Rajput woman was wont to go through fire to meet her lord who had died in battle.

Who acts: armies, Rajput woman, lord · What happens: take down, be, go, meet, die · To what, where: women, vaults, fire, lord

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 (armies, Rajput woman, lord), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 took	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 women	nmod:poss
5	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
6	down	down	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 vaults	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vaults	det
9	vaults	vault	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obl
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	12 city	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 city	det
12	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wont	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 wont	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	Rajput	Rajput	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 woman	compound
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wont	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wont	cop
19	wont	wont	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 took	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wont	xcomp
22	through	through	ADP	_	23 fire	case
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 meet	mark
25	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	advcl
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 lord	nmod:poss
27	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 meet	obj
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 died	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 died	aux
30	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 lord	acl:relcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 battle	case
32	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 died	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take down	past	armies = army	armies's women	the vaults	beneath the city; down property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
2	is	past	the Rajput woman			wont property	tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	the Rajput woman not said here		fire		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through fire=Initial_Location
4	meet	to-infinitive	the Rajput woman not said here	Rajputana's lord			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Co-Agent
5	die	past · perfect	Rajputana's lord			in battle	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in battle=Attribute

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 4, sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 6