Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 74
Deeper and deeper they went, till they came to a throne of black marble, resting on the backs of twenty-four beautiful carved eagles of marble.
Who acts: Men · What happens: go, come, rest, carve · To what, where: throne, backs
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 (Men), 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 | Deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 deeper | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 1 Deeper | cc |
| 3 | deeper | deep | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 went | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 throne | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 throne | det |
| 12 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 marble | case |
| 14 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 marble | amod |
| 15 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 throne | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 resting | punct |
| 17 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 backs | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 backs | det |
| 20 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 resting | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 eagles | case |
| 22 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 four | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 twenty | punct |
| 24 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 eagles | nummod |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 eagles | amod |
| 26 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 eagles | amod |
| 27 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 backs | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 marble | case |
| 29 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 eagles | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Men = man | deep property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Men = man | a throne of black marble | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to throne=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | rest | gerund | Men = man not said here | the backs of four beautiful carved eagles of marble | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Location | ||||
| 4 | carve | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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