Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 144

And there came to him one named Ekalavya, the king of a caste that was not the soldier-caste, who said: “Teach me to shoot.”

Who acts: caste, soldier caste · What happens: come, name, not be, say, teach, shoot · To what, where: one named Ekalavya, Master, soldier caste · 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 (caste, soldier caste), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 came	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 came	expl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	obl
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 Ekalavya	nummod
7	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 Ekalavya	amod
8	Ekalavya	Ekalavya	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 king	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Ekalavya	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 caste	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 caste	det
14	caste	caste	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 king	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 caste	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 caste	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 caste	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 caste	det
19	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 caste	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 soldier	punct
21	caste	caste	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 caste	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 caste	parataxis
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 Teach	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 Teach	punct
27	Teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 Teach	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 shoot	mark
30	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 Teach	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 Teach	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 caste	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come	past		one named Ekalavya	Master	there	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	name	participle					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not is a	past	a caste	the soldier caste			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the soldier caste				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	teach speech: other in a quote	infinitive			the soldier caste = caste		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6	shoot in a quote	to-infinitive					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 144

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 144