Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 40
And Jattayu was feared, even though there were those among the bird-people who could tell how Jattayu could be gentle to the weak.
Who acts: bird people, Jattayu · What happens: fear, be, tell · To what, where: Jattayu, those · 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 (bird people, Jattayu), 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 | _ | 4 feared | cc |
| 2 | Jattayu | Jattayu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 feared | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 feared | aux:pass |
| 4 | feared | fear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 those | punct |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 those | advmod |
| 7 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 10 those | mark |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 those | expl |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 those | cop |
| 10 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 feared | obl |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 people | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 people | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 bird | punct |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 those | nmod |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 tell | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 tell | aux |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 people | acl:relcl |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 gentle | advmod |
| 20 | Jattayu | Jattayu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 gentle | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 gentle | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 gentle | cop |
| 23 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tell | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 weak | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 weak | det |
| 26 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gentle | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past · passive | Jattayu | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | those | there | among the bird people | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | could | the bird people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | could | Jattayu | to the weak; gentle 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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