Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 70
Now there lived close to the ruined city, a King great and powerful: and to his ears also came the story of the boy doing justice on the green mound.
Who acts: boy · What happens: live, ruin, come, do · To what, where: King, story, justice, green mound
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 (boy), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lived | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lived | advmod |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 lived | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 7 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 city | amod |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 close | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 King | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 King | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 powerful | cc |
| 14 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 great | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 ears | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ears | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 came | obl |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lived | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 story | det |
| 23 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 boy | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 boy | det |
| 26 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 story | nmod |
| 27 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 boy | acl |
| 28 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 doing | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 mound | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 mound | det |
| 31 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 mound | amod |
| 32 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 doing | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | participle | a King | there | now | close property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | the story of the boy | to KING's ears | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location story=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | gerund | the boy not said here | justice | the green mound | 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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