Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 151
One day Drona and the high-born princes were out shooting in the forest, and they had with them a dog.
Who acts: One day, riches · What happens: bear, be out, shoot, have · To what, where: forest, dog
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 (One day, riches), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 were | nsubj |
| 3 | Drona | Drona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 day | appos |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 princes | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princes | det |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 born | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 high | punct |
| 8 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 princes | amod |
| 9 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Drona | conj |
| 10 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 were | compound:prt |
| 12 | shooting | shoot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 were | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shooting | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 were | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | obl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dog | det |
| 23 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | be out | past | One day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shoot | gerund | One day not said here | the forest | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in forest=Destination | ||||
| 4 | have | past | riches = rich | a dog | with Worlds = world | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
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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