Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 49
So, one day he made the little-eagle heart of him very brave, and made Jattayu believe that he too was wanting to see the sun; but that he was afraid of falling back upon the earth in terror, when he got near the sun’s brilliance.
Who acts: Sanpati, Jattayu · What happens: make, believe, want, see, be, fall back · To what, where: eagle heart, Jattayu, sun, earth, brilliance
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 (Sanpati, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 made | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heart | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eagle | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 little | punct |
| 10 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heart | compound |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 brave | advmod |
| 15 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 made | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 19 | Jattayu | Jattayu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 20 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 made | xcomp |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 wanting | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wanting | nsubj |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 25 wanting | advmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 wanting | aux |
| 25 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 believe | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 wanting | xcomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sun | det |
| 29 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 see | obj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 afraid | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 afraid | cc |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 afraid | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 afraid | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 afraid | cop |
| 35 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 made | advcl |
| 36 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 37 falling | mark |
| 37 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 afraid | advcl |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 37 falling | advmod |
| 39 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 41 earth | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 earth | det |
| 41 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 falling | obl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 terror | case |
| 43 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 earth | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 got | punct |
| 45 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 47 got | advmod |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 got | nsubj |
| 47 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 afraid | advcl |
| 48 | near | near | ADP | _ | 52 brilliance | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 sun | det |
| 50 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 brilliance | nmod:poss |
| 51 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 50 sun | case |
| 52 | brilliance | brilliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 got | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Sanpati | the eagle heart of spot | day | brave property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Product | ||
| 2 | make | past | Sanpati not said here | Jattayu | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | believe | infinitive | Jattayu not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | want | past · progressive | Sanpati | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | Sanpati not said here | the sun | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Sanpati | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | fall back | gerund | Sanpati not said here | the earth in terror | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon earth=Location | ||||
| 8 | get | past | Sanpati | the sun's brilliance | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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