Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 150
And he forgot the riches of his palace and all the pleasures of the world, in reaching out to his great desire.
Who acts: Ekalavya · What happens: forget, reach out, please, desire · To what, where: riches, world
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 forgot | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forgot | nsubj |
| 3 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 riches | det |
| 5 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 forgot | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 palace | nmod:poss |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 riches | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pleasures | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 pleasures | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pleasures | det |
| 12 | pleasures | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 palace | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pleasures | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 reaching | punct |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 reaching | mark |
| 18 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 forgot | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 reaching | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 desire | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 desire | nmod:poss |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 desire | amod |
| 23 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reaching | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | Ekalavya | the riches of Ekalavya's palace and all pleasures of the world | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reach out | gerund | Ekalavya not said here | to Ekalavya's great desire | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | please | the world | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | desire | Ekalavya | nom desire «feeling 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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