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Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 52

“It is wonderful,” he kept saying, “that I got so near, and yet was not struck or burnt by the Sun-God and the fierceness of his rays.

Who acts: sun, Sanpati · What happens: be, keep, say, get, not strike, burnt · 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 (sun, 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

punctnsubjcoppunctpunctnsubjparataxisxcomppunctpunctmarknsubjccompadvmodadvmodpunctccadvmodaux:passadvmodconjccconjcasedetcompoundpunctoblccdetconjcasenmod:possnmodpunctroot“PUNCTItPRONisAUXwonderfulADJ,PUNCT”PUNCThePRONkeptVERBsayingVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTthatSCONJIPRONgotVERBsoADVnearADV,PUNCTandCCONJyetADVwasAUXnotPARTstruckVERBorCCONJburntVERBbyADPtheDETSunPROPN-PUNCTGodPROPNandCCONJtheDETfiercenessNOUNofADPhisPRONraysNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_4 wonderfulpunct
2ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 wonderfulnsubj
3isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 wonderfulcop
4wonderfulwonderfulADJDegree=Posrootroot
5,,PUNCT_4 wonderfulpunct
6”"PUNCT_4 wonderfulpunct
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 keptnsubj
8keptkeepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 wonderfulparataxis
9sayingsayVERBVerbForm=Ger8 keptxcomp
10,,PUNCT_14 gotpunct
11“"PUNCT_14 gotpunct
12thatthatSCONJ_14 gotmark
13IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs14 gotnsubj
14gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 sayingccomp
15sosoADV_16 nearadvmod
16nearnearADV_14 gotadvmod
17,,PUNCT_22 struckpunct
18andandCCONJ_22 struckcc
19yetyetADV_22 struckadvmod
20wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 struckaux:pass
21notnotPARTPolarity=Neg22 struckadvmod
22struckstrikeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass8 keptconj
23ororCCONJ_24 burntcc
24burntburntVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass22 struckconj
25bybyADP_29 Godcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 Goddet
27SunSunPROPNNumber=Sing29 Godcompound
28--PUNCT_27 Sunpunct
29GodGodPROPNNumber=Sing24 burntobl
30andandCCONJ_32 fiercenesscc
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 fiercenessdet
32fiercenessfiercenessNOUNNumber=Sing29 Godconj
33ofofADP_35 rayscase
34hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 raysnmod:poss
35raysrayNOUNNumber=Plur32 fiercenessnmod
36..PUNCT_4 wonderfulpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is in a quotepresentsunwonderful propertytree rules
2keeppastSanpatitree rules
3say speech: assertgerundSanpati not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4get in a quotepastSanpatinear propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5not strike in a quotepast · passiveSanpati not said hereyetvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»
6burnt in a quoteparticipleSanpati not said hereby the Sun God and the fierceness of Sanpati's raystree rules
7ray in a quoteSanpatinom ray «phenomenon transitive»: 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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