Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 153
And Ekalavya heard, and shot an arrow in the direction of the sound; and the arrow went straight into the dog’s mouth.
Who acts: Ekalavya, arrow · What happens: hear, shoot, go · To what, where: arrow, direction, mouth
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, arrow), 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 heard | cc |
| 2 | Ekalavya | Ekalavya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shot | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shot | cc |
| 6 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 arrow | det |
| 8 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shot | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 direction | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 direction | det |
| 11 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrow | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sound | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sound | det |
| 14 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 direction | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 arrow | det |
| 18 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 20 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 25 mouth | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 mouth | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dog | det |
| 23 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 dog | case |
| 25 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Ekalavya | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | shoot | past | Ekalavya not said here | a arrow | the direction of the sound | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme in direction=Destination | |||
| 3 | go | past | the arrow | the dog's mouth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mouth=Initial_Location |
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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