Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 122
And the musicians sat in a watch-tower at the gate: and all who came and went, and all that happened, they saw best of all.
Who acts: musicians, that · What happens: sit, come, go, happen, see · To what, where: watch tower
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 (musicians, that), 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 | _ | 4 sat | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 musicians | det |
| 3 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tower | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tower | det |
| 7 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tower | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 watch | punct |
| 9 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 gate | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gate | det |
| 12 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 all | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 came | advmod |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 came | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 happened | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 happened | cc |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 happened | det:predet |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 happened | nsubj |
| 24 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 came | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 saw | punct |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 saw | nsubj |
| 27 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 happened | conj |
| 28 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 27 saw | advmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 all | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 best | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the musicians | a watch tower | at the gate | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tower=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | who nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | happen | past | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | past | musicians = musician | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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