Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 102
Touching her feet with his forehead, as is the way of saluting mother-people, he asked her advice.
Who acts: Touching, way, KING · What happens: touch, be, salute, ask · To what, where: feet, way, mother people, advice
This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Touching, way, KING), 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 | Touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 way | csubj |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 feet | nmod:poss |
| 3 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Touching | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 forehead | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 6 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Touching | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Touching | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 1 Touching | fixed |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 way | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 saluting | mark |
| 13 | saluting | salute | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 way | acl |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 people | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 mother | punct |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 saluting | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 way | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 asked | nsubj |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 advice | nmod:poss |
| 21 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | gerund | Prithi's feet | with KING's forehead | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent foot=Experiencer with forehead=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Touching | the way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | salute | gerund | the way not said here | mother people | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | KING | Prithi's advice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient |
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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