Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 142

There was a Master-Archer whose name was Drona: and it was he who taught all the princes of India to shoot, so that none could conquer them.

Who acts: Master, name, none, Drona · What happens: be, shoot, conquer, name · To what, where: Drona, Men

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 (Master, name, none, Drona), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Master	det
4	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Archer	punct
6	Archer	Archer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Master	appos
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Drona	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Drona	cop
10	Drona	Drona	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Archer	acl:relcl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 taught	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 taught	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 taught	nsubj:outer
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 taught	cop
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 taught	nsubj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 taught	nsubj
17	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 princes	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 princes	det
20	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 taught	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 India	case
22	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 princes	nmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 shoot	mark
24	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 princes	acl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 conquer	punct
26	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	30 conquer	mark
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 so	fixed
28	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	30 conquer	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 conquer	aux
30	conquer	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 shoot	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 conquer	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a Master		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	Drona's name	Drona			tree rules
3	is	past	name			Master nsubj; who nsubj; all princes of India obj; teach property	tree rules
4	shoot	to-infinitive	name not said here				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	conquer	could	none	Men = man			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	name		Drona				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 142

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 142