Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 115
And he sent his heralds to all parts of India, to call the princes of India to the great choosing.
Who acts: KING · What happens: send, call, choose · To what, where: heralds, parts, princes, great · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sent | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heralds | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heralds | herald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 parts | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 parts | det |
| 8 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 India | case |
| 10 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 parts | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 call | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 call | mark |
| 13 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princes | det |
| 15 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 call | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 India | case |
| 17 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 princes | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 great | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 great | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 call | obl |
| 21 | choosing | choose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 call | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | KING | KING's heralds | all parts of India | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herald=Theme to part=Destination | |||
| 2 | call | to-infinitive | the princes of India | the great | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Topic to great=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | choose | gerund | vn get-13.5.1 «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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