Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 120
The King and Queen sat on golden thrones on a marble balcony: and down below were the thrones of the princes who sought the hand of Samyukta.
Who acts: King, princes · What happens: sit, be, seek · To what, where: golden thrones, thrones, hand
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, princes), 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 | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Queen | cc |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 thrones | case |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thrones | amod |
| 8 | thrones | throne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sat | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 balcony | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 balcony | det |
| 11 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 balcony | amod |
| 12 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 thrones | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thrones | cc |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 below | advmod |
| 16 | below | below | ADV | _ | 19 thrones | advmod |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 thrones | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thrones | det |
| 19 | thrones | throne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sat | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 princes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 princes | det |
| 22 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 thrones | nmod |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 sought | nsubj |
| 24 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 princes | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hand | det |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sought | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Samyukta | case |
| 28 | Samyukta | Samyukta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 hand | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the King and Queen | golden thrones | on a marble balcony | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the thrones | of the princes; below property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seek | past | the princes | the hand of Samyukta | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
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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