Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 60
When he died, his beautiful palace and city of marble fell into ruins: and people remembered nothing but his name, and that he was great and good, and wise and gentle.
Who acts: KING, beautiful palace, people · What happens: die, fall, remember, be, name · To what, where: ruins, nothing
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 (KING, beautiful palace, people), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 died | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 died | nsubj |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fell | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 died | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 palace | nmod:poss |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 palace | amod |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 city | cc |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 palace | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 marble | case |
| 11 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 city | nmod |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 ruins | case |
| 14 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fell | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 remembered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 remembered | cc |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 remembered | nsubj |
| 18 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fell | conj |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 remembered | obj |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 name | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 name | nmod:poss |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nothing | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 great | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 great | cc |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 great | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 great | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 great | cop |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 remembered | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 good | cc |
| 30 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 great | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wise | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 wise | cc |
| 33 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fell | parataxis |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 gentle | cc |
| 35 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 wise | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | KING | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | KING's beautiful palace and city of marble | into ruins result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ruin=Result | ||||
| 3 | remember | past | people | nothing KING's name | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | KING | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | KING not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | name | KING | nom name «communication 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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