Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 65

So he sat on the mound; and the boys ran away and whispered, and made a tale of wrong, and brought it to the boy on the mound, who did justice.

Who acts: JUSTICE, boys, mound · What happens: sit, run away, whisper, make, bring, do · To what, where: mound, tale, boy, justice

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 (JUSTICE, boys, mound), 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	_	3 sat	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 mound	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mound	det
6	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 ran	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ran	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boys	det
10	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ran	nsubj
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 ran	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 whispered	cc
14	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ran	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tale	det
19	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 wrong	case
21	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tale	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 brought	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 brought	cc
24	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 brought	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 boy	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boy	det
28	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brought	obl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 mound	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mound	det
31	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brought	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 did	punct
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 did	nsubj
34	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 mound	acl:relcl
35	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 did	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	JUSTICE			the mound		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mound=Location
2	run away	past	the boys				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	whisper speech: assert	past	the boys not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	JUSTICE not said here	a tale of wrong				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tale=Product
5	bring	past	JUSTICE not said here	mound	the boy	the mound		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to boy=Destination
6	do	past	the mound	justice				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=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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🌲 Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 65

The tree

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Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 65