Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 44
And always and always in their talk Little-Eagle Sanpati noticed one yearning in the big brother whom he loved and admired.
Who acts: Eagle Sanpati, Sanpati, wonders · What happens: notice, love, admire, talk · To what, where: one yearning, talk, big brother
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 (Eagle Sanpati, Sanpati, wonders), 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 | _ | 12 noticed | cc |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 noticed | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 noticed | cc |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 noticed | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 talk | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 talk | nmod:poss |
| 7 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 noticed | obl |
| 8 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Eagle | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Little | punct |
| 10 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sanpati | compound |
| 11 | Sanpati | Sanpati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 noticed | nsubj |
| 12 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 yearning | nummod |
| 14 | yearning | yearning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 noticed | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 brother | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 brother | det |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 brother | amod |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 noticed | obl |
| 19 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 loved | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 loved | nsubj |
| 21 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 brother | acl:relcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 admired | cc |
| 23 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 loved | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | Eagle Sanpati | one yearning | wonders's talk | in the big brother; always property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer yearning=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | love | past | Sanpati | the big brother | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | admire | past | Sanpati not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | talk | wonders = wonder | nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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