Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 36
The brothers lived together on a crag of the mountains called the Home of Snow, which stretch across the north-east boundary of India.
Who acts: brothers, mountains · What happens: live together, call, stretch · To what, where: crag, mountains, east boundary · 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 (brothers, mountains), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 lived | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 crag | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crag | det |
| 7 | crag | crag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mountains | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mountains | det |
| 10 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crag | nmod |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 mountains | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Home | det |
| 13 | Home | Home | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Snow | case |
| 15 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Home | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stretch | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stretch | nsubj |
| 18 | stretch | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 mountains | acl:relcl |
| 19 | across | across | ADP | _ | 24 boundary | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boundary | det |
| 21 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 east | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 north | punct |
| 23 | east | east | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 boundary | amod |
| 24 | boundary | boundary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stretch | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 India | case |
| 26 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 boundary | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live together | past | the brothers | a crag of the mountains | together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on crag=Location | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the mountains not said here | the Home of Snow xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stretch | present | the mountains | the east boundary of India | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across boundary=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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