Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 35
And Jattayu was King of all the Eagle Tribes; and among the birds of the air there was none more powerful than Jattayu.
Who acts: Jattayu King · What happens: be · To what, where: Jattayu King
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 (Jattayu King), 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 | _ | 22 powerful | cc |
| 2 | Jattayu | Jattayu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | compound |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 King | cop |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 powerful | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Tribes | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 Tribes | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tribes | det |
| 8 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Tribes | compound |
| 9 | Tribes | Tribe | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 King | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 birds | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 birds | cc |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 birds | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 birds | det |
| 14 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 powerful | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 air | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 birds | nmod |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 powerful | cop |
| 20 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 22 powerful | nsubj |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 powerful | advmod |
| 22 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 Jattayu | case |
| 24 | Jattayu | Jattayu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 powerful | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 powerful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Jattayu King | of all Eagle Tribes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Jattayu King | than Jattayu; the birds of the air nsubj; none nsubj; powerful property | 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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