Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 47
And his love for Jattayu was so great that it found a way.
Who acts: love, Sanpati · What happens: be, find, love · To what, where: way
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 (love, Sanpati), 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 | _ | 8 great | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 love | nmod:poss |
| 3 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 great | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Jattayu | case |
| 5 | Jattayu | Jattayu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 love | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 great | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 great | advmod |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 found | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 great | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sanpati's love for Jattayu | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | past | love | a way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 3 | love | Sanpati | for Jattayu | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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