Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 59
Long before time as we count it, there lived in India a great and just King whose name was Vikramaditya.
Who acts: we, King, name · What happens: count, live, name, be · To what, where: THRONE, India, great Vikramaditya
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 (we, King, name), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 lived | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Long | obl |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 count | mark |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 count | nsubj |
| 6 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Long | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 count | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Long | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 lived | expl |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 India | case |
| 12 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Vikramaditya | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Vikramaditya | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Vikramaditya | cc |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 name | advmod |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 name | nsubj |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 name | nmod:poss |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Vikramaditya | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Vikramaditya | cop |
| 21 | Vikramaditya | Vikramaditya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | we | THRONE | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | India; there | long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in india=Location | ||||
| 3 | name | King | a great Vikramaditya nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | a great Vikramaditya's name | a great Vikramaditya | tree rules |
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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