Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 48
“If one should fly between him and the sun to protect him,” he said, “it could be done.”
Who acts: one, Sanpati · What happens: fly, protect, say, do · To what, where: Sanpati, sun · 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 (one, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fly | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 fly | mark |
| 3 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fly | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fly | aux |
| 5 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fly | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sun | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 him | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 protect | mark |
| 12 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fly | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 protect | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fly | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fly | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 done | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 done | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 done | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 done | aux:pass |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 said | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | should | one | between Sanpati | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between he=Location | ||||
| 2 | protect in a quote | to-infinitive | one not said here | Sanpati | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Sanpati | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | could · passive | sun | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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