Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 131
Proudly and patiently she heard the long tale of his greatness sounded by the heralds: and silently and proudly she passed on.
Who acts: choice, greatness · What happens: hear, sound, pass on, tell · To what, where: long tale, greatness · 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 (choice, greatness), 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 | Proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 heard | cc |
| 3 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 5 heard | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tale | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tale | amod |
| 8 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 greatness | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 greatness | nmod:poss |
| 11 | greatness | greatness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tale | nmod |
| 12 | sounded | sound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 greatness | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 heralds | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heralds | det |
| 15 | heralds | herald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sounded | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 silently | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 silently | cc |
| 18 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 5 heard | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 proudly | cc |
| 20 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 18 silently | conj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 passed | nsubj |
| 22 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | parataxis |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 passed | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | choice | the long tale of PRINCE's greatness | patiently, proudly, silently property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | sound | participle | PRINCE's greatness not said here | by the heralds | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by herald=Location | ||||
| 3 | pass on | past | choice | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell | PRINCE's greatness | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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