Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 103
The old woman loved Prithi Raja very dearly, and found a way of helping him.
Who acts: old woman, way · What happens: love, find, help · To what, where: Prithi Raja, way, Raja
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 (old woman, way), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | nsubj |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Prithi | Prithi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Raja | compound |
| 6 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | obj |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 dearly | advmod |
| 8 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 4 loved | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 loved | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 helping | mark |
| 15 | helping | help | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 way | acl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 helping | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | the old woman | Prithi Raja | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer raja=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | find | past | the old woman not said here | a way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 3 | help | gerund | a way not said here | Raja | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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