Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 135
But the last prince also did Samyukta reject, and turning to the wooden image of Prithi Raja, who had had no invitation to the Great-Choosing, she placed on its neck the garland, kept for her true knight alone.
Who acts: last prince, wooden image, crowd · What happens: reject, turn, have, choose, place, keep · To what, where: wooden image, invitation, garland, neck, Prithi
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 (last prince, wooden image, crowd), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 reject | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 prince | amod |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reject | nsubj |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 reject | advmod |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reject | aux |
| 7 | Samyukta | Samyukta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 reject | nsubj |
| 8 | reject | reject | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turning | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turning | cc |
| 11 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 reject | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 image | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 image | det |
| 14 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 image | amod |
| 15 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turning | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Prithi | case |
| 17 | Prithi | Prithi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 image | nmod |
| 18 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Prithi | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 had | aux |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 image | parataxis |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 invitation | det |
| 24 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 25 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 29 Choosing | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Choosing | det |
| 27 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Choosing | amod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Great | punct |
| 29 | Choosing | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 invitation | acl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 placed | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 placed | nsubj |
| 32 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turning | conj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 neck | case |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 neck | nmod:poss |
| 35 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 placed | obl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 garland | det |
| 37 | garland | garland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 placed | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 kept | punct |
| 39 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 garland | acl |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 knight | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 knight | nmod:poss |
| 42 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 knight | amod |
| 43 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 kept | obl |
| 44 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 43 knight | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reject | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reject | past · do-support | the last prince | Samyukta nsubj | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | the last prince not said here | the wooden image of Prithi | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to image=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the wooden image of Prithi | no invitation | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Patient | ||||
| 4 | choose | gerund | the wooden image of Prithi not said here | no invitation not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | place | past | crowd | the garland | invitation's neck | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent garland=Theme on neck=Destination | |||
| 6 | keep | participle | the garland not said here | for crowd's true knight | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | image | Prithi | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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