Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 87
And so each time that the King returned to mount the throne, an eagle spoke and showed some evil of his life, and the King went away sorrowful to his three days’ fasting.
Who acts: King, eagle, three days · What happens: return, mount, speak, show, go away, fast · To what, where: time, throne, evil · 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, eagle, three days), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spoke | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 spoke | advmod |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spoke | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 returned | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | nsubj |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 mount | mark |
| 10 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 returned | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 throne | det |
| 12 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mount | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 eagle | det |
| 15 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spoke | nsubj |
| 16 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 showed | cc |
| 18 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 spoke | conj |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 evil | det |
| 20 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 showed | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 life | nmod:poss |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 evil | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 King | det |
| 27 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 went | nsubj |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 spoke | conj |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 went | advmod |
| 30 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 went | xcomp |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 days | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 days | nmod:poss |
| 33 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 days | nummod |
| 34 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 sorrowful | obl |
| 35 | ’ | ' | SYM | _ | 36 fasting | punct |
| 36 | fasting | fast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 days | acl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the King | each time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mount | to-infinitive | the King not said here | the throne | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Patient | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | a eagle | time | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | show | past | a eagle not said here | some evil of KING's life | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent evil=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | go away | past | the King | away, sorrowful property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fast | gerund | KING's three days not said here | tree rules |
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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