Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 147
For he was afraid that the low-caste man might become the equal of the high-born princes.
Who acts: Drona, caste man · What happens: be, become, bear · To what, where: equal
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 (Drona, caste man), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 afraid | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 become | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 7 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 caste | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 low | punct |
| 9 | caste | caste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | compound |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 become | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 become | aux |
| 12 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 equal | det |
| 14 | equal | equal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 become | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 princes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princes | det |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 born | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 high | punct |
| 19 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 princes | amod |
| 20 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 equal | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Drona | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | might | the caste man | the equal of the born princes | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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