Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 148
Then Ekalavya went away very sadly to the forest, and built a shrine to Drona, the Master-Archer.
Who acts: Ekalavya · What happens: go away, build · To what, where: forest, shrine, Drona
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 (Ekalavya), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Ekalavya | Ekalavya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 sadly | advmod |
| 6 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 9 forest | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 built | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 built | cc |
| 12 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shrine | det |
| 14 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 built | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Drona | case |
| 16 | Drona | Drona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 built | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Archer | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Archer | det |
| 19 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Archer | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Master | punct |
| 21 | Archer | Archer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Drona | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | Ekalavya | the forest | then | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | build | past | Ekalavya not said here | a shrine | Drona and the Master Archer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shrine=Product |
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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