Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 159
So the princes went and told Drona, and he came back with them to the shrine in the forest.
Who acts: princes, PRINCE · What happens: go, tell, come back · To what, where: Drona, shrine · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (princes, PRINCE), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princes | det |
| 3 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 told | cc |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 7 | Drona | Drona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 told | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 shrine | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shrine | det |
| 17 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shrine | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the princes | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the princes not said here | Drona | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent drona=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come back | past | PRINCE | the shrine in the forest | with arrows = arrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shrine=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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