Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 149
And he thought about him, and fasted and prayed night and day for skill in shooting: and night and day he practised ceaselessly, shooting arrows into the distance--shooting and shooting.
Who acts: Ekalavya · What happens: think, fast, pray, practise, shoot · To what, where: arrows
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 thought | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fasted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fasted | cc |
| 8 | fasted | fast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 prayed | cc |
| 10 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fasted | conj |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prayed | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 day | cc |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 night | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 skill | case |
| 15 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prayed | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 shooting | case |
| 17 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 skill | nmod |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 practised | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 practised | cc |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 practised | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 day | cc |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 night | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 practised | nsubj |
| 24 | practised | practise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 25 | ceaselessly | ceaselessly | ADV | _ | 24 practised | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shooting | punct |
| 27 | shooting | shoot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 practised | advcl |
| 28 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 shooting | obj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 distance | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 distance | det |
| 31 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shooting | obl |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 shooting | punct |
| 33 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 distance | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 shooting | cc |
| 35 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 distance | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Ekalavya | about Drona | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fast | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | pray | past | night | for skill in shooting | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for skill=Theme | ||||
| 4 | practise | past | Ekalavya | night | ceaselessly property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | shoot | gerund | Ekalavya not said here | arrows | into the distance and shooting and shooting | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme into distance=Destination |
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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