Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 105
And the nurse who loved Prithi Raja, went a long way till she came to the gates of the palace of Kanauj.
Who acts: nurse · What happens: love, go, come · To what, where: Prithi Raja, long way, gates
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 (nurse), 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 | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nurse | det |
| 3 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 loved | nsubj |
| 5 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 nurse | acl:relcl |
| 6 | Prithi | Prithi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Raja | compound |
| 7 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 loved | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nurse | punct |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obj |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 came | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 gates | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gates | det |
| 18 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gates | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Kanauj | case |
| 23 | Kanauj | Kanauj | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 palace | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | the nurse | Prithi Raja | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer raja=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the nurse | a long way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | nurse | the gates of the palace of Kanauj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location |
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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