Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 125
She wore a sari that flowed about her like golden water, and the golden anklets on her feet and the golden bracelets on her arms tinkled music.
Who acts: Prithi, sari, golden anklets · What happens: wear, flow, tinkle · To what, where: sari, music
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 (Prithi, sari, golden anklets), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sari | det |
| 4 | sari | sari | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wore | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 flowed | nsubj |
| 6 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sari | acl:relcl |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 flowed | obl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 water | amod |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flowed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tinkled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 tinkled | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 anklets | det |
| 15 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 anklets | amod |
| 16 | anklets | anklet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 tinkled | nsubj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 feet | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 feet | nmod:poss |
| 19 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 anklets | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bracelets | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bracelets | det |
| 22 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bracelets | amod |
| 23 | bracelets | bracelet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 feet | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 arms | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 arms | nmod:poss |
| 26 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bracelets | nmod |
| 27 | tinkled | tinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wore | conj |
| 28 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tinkled | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | Prithi | a sari | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sari=Source | ||||
| 2 | flow | past | a sari | about Prithi; like golden water | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about she=Location | ||||
| 3 | tinkle | past | the golden anklets on Prithi's feet and the golden bracelets on Prithi's arms | music | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location music=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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