Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 160
“How say you,” said Drona, “that you are my pupil?”
Who acts: Drona, you · What happens: say, be · To what, where: you, pupil · 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 (Drona, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 say | advmod |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 say | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Drona | Drona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 pupil | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 pupil | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 pupil | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pupil | cop |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pupil | nmod:poss |
| 15 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 pupil | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 pupil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Drona not said here | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent you=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Drona | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | you | my pupil | my nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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