Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 139
Prithi Raja the Minstrel, mounted on Prithi Raja the King’s swiftest charger, was at her side, and stooping lifted her to his saddle, and rode away swiftly to the gates of Delhi.
Who acts: Prithi · What happens: mount, be, stoop, lift, ride away · To what, where: side, Prithi, saddle, gates
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), 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 | Prithi | Prithi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 side | nsubj |
| 2 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prithi | flat |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Minstrel | det |
| 4 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prithi | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mounted | punct |
| 6 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Prithi | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Raja | case |
| 8 | Prithi | Prithi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Raja | compound |
| 9 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mounted | obl:agent |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 charger | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 King | case |
| 13 | swiftest | swift | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 charger | amod |
| 14 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Raja | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Prithi | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 side | cop |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 side | nmod:poss |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lifted | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lifted | cc |
| 22 | stooping | stoop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 lifted | nsubj |
| 23 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 side | acl:relcl |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lifted | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 saddle | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 27 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lifted | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 rode | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 rode | cc |
| 30 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lifted | conj |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 rode | advmod |
| 32 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 30 rode | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 gates | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 gates | det |
| 35 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 rode | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Delhi | case |
| 37 | Delhi | Delhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 gates | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 side | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | participle | Prithi not said here | Prithi Raja obl:agent | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Prithi | Prithi's side | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stoop | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | lift | past | Prithi | KING's saddle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to saddle=Destination | ||||
| 5 | ride away | past | the gates of Delhi | away, swiftly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to gate=Trajectory |
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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