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Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 126

Her eyes were on the ground as she walked, and lightly she held the garland of fresh jasmine flowers, which she would place on the neck of him whom she chose to be her husband.

Who acts: eyes, Prithi, fresh jasmine flowers · What happens: be, walk, hold, place, choose · To what, where: ground, garland, neck, place, husband

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 (eyes, Prithi, fresh jasmine flowers), 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

nmod:possnsubjcopcasedetmarknsubjacl:relclpunctccadvmodnsubjconjdetobjcaseamodcompoundnmodpunctnsubjnsubjauxconjcasedetnmodcasenmodobjnsubjacl:relclmarkcopnmod:possxcomppunctrootHerPRONeyesNOUNwereAUXonADPtheDETgroundNOUNasSCONJshePRONwalkedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJlightlyADVshePRONheldVERBtheDETgarlandNOUNofADPfreshADJjasmineNOUNflowersNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONshePRONwouldAUXplaceNOUNonADPtheDETneckNOUNofADPhimPRONwhomPRONshePRONchoseVERBtoPARTbeAUXherPRONhusbandNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HerherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 eyesnmod:poss
2eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur6 groundnsubj
3werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 groundcop
4ononADP_6 groundcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 grounddet
6groundgroundNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
7asasSCONJ_9 walkedmark
8sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 walkednsubj
9walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 groundacl:relcl
10,,PUNCT_14 heldpunct
11andandCCONJ_14 heldcc
12lightlylightlyADV_14 heldadvmod
13sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 heldnsubj
14heldholdVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 walkedconj
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 garlanddet
16garlandgarlandNOUNNumber=Sing14 heldobj
17ofofADP_20 flowerscase
18freshfreshADJDegree=Pos20 flowersamod
19jasminejasmineNOUNNumber=Sing20 flowerscompound
20flowersflowerNOUNNumber=Plur16 garlandnmod
21,,PUNCT_25 placepunct
22whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel25 placensubj
23sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 placensubj
24wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin25 placeaux
25placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing20 flowersconj
26ononADP_28 neckcase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 neckdet
28neckneckNOUNNumber=Sing25 placenmod
29ofofADP_30 himcase
30himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 necknmod
31whomwhomPRONPronType=Rel33 choseobj
32sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 chosensubj
33chosechooseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 placeacl:relcl
34totoPART_37 husbandmark
35bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf37 husbandcop
36herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs37 husbandnmod:poss
37husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing33 chosexcomp
38..PUNCT_6 groundpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastPrithi's eyesthe groundtree rules
2walkpastPrithithe ground not said herevn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Trajectory
3holdpastPrithithe garland of fresh jasmine flowers and placelightly propertyvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garland=Theme
4placewouldfresh jasmine flowers and placethe neck of sariPrithi nsubjtree rules
5choosepastPrithiplacevn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme
6is ato-infinitivePrithi not said herePrithi's husbandPrithi nmod:posstree rules

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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