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Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 77

But when the King would have mounted the throne, one of the carven eagles which bore the throne on its back, came alive and spoke to the King.

Who acts: King, carven eagles · What happens: mount, bear, come, speak · To what, where: throne, back · Speech: someone speaks here

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, carven eagles), 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

ccadvmoddetnsubjauxauxdetobjpunctapposcasedetamodnmodnsubjacl:relcldetobjcasenmod:possoblpunctparataxisxcompccconjcasedetoblpunctrootButCCONJwhenADVtheDETKingPROPNwouldAUXhaveAUXmountedVERBtheDETthroneNOUN,PUNCToneNUMofADPtheDETcarvenADJeaglesNOUNwhichPRONboreVERBtheDETthroneNOUNonADPitsPRONbackNOUN,PUNCTcameVERBaliveADJandCCONJspokeVERBtoADPtheDETKingPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_7 mountedcc
2whenwhenADVPronType=Int7 mountedadvmod
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 Kingdet
4KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing7 mountednsubj
5wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin7 mountedaux
6havehaveAUXVerbForm=Inf7 mountedaux
7mountedmountVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 thronedet
9thronethroneNOUNNumber=Sing7 mountedobj
10,,PUNCT_11 onepunct
11oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card9 throneappos
12ofofADP_15 eaglescase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 eaglesdet
14carvencarvenADJDegree=Pos15 eaglesamod
15eagleseagleNOUNNumber=Plur11 onenmod
16whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel17 borensubj
17borebearVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 eaglesacl:relcl
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 thronedet
19thronethroneNOUNNumber=Sing17 boreobj
20ononADP_22 backcase
21itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 backnmod:poss
22backbackNOUNNumber=Sing17 boreobl
23,,PUNCT_24 camepunct
24camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 boreparataxis
25alivealiveADJDegree=Pos24 camexcomp
26andandCCONJ_27 spokecc
27spokespeakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 cameconj
28totoADP_30 Kingcase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 Kingdet
30KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing27 spokeobl
31..PUNCT_7 mountedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1mountwould · perfectthe Kingthe thronevn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Patient
2bearpastthe carven eaglesthe throneTHRONE's backvn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Patient
3comepastalive propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4speak speech: otherpastto the Kingvn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to king=Co-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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