Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 156
And they made the dog show them the way to the shrine, and there was Ekalavya shooting ceaselessly.
Who acts: arrows, dog · What happens: make, show, be, shoot · To what, where: Ekalavya, 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 (arrows, dog), 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 made | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | nsubj |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | xcomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 show | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 shrine | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shrine | det |
| 12 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 way | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 was | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 17 | Ekalavya | Ekalavya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 18 | shooting | shoot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 made | advcl |
| 19 | ceaselessly | ceaselessly | ADV | _ | 18 shooting | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | arrows = arrow | Ekalavya | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | infinitive | the dog | arrows = arrow | the way obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient way=Topic | |||
| 3 | be | past | arrows = arrow not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shoot | gerund | arrows = arrow not said here | ceaselessly property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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