Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 88

And last of all there was only one eagle left; and the King came walking slowly: “This time I must sit on the throne,” was his thought.

Who acts: King, time · What happens: leave, come, walk, sit, be · To what, where: one eagle, throne, last thought

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, time), 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	_	2 last	cc
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 thought	amod
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 last	nmod
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 all	acl:relcl
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 one	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 eagle	nummod
9	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 eagle	acl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	parataxis
16	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 came	xcomp
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	16 walking	advmod
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 sit	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 sit	punct
20	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sit	nsubj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 sit	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 sit	aux
24	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 came	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 throne	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 throne	det
27	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sit	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sit	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 sit	punct
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 thought	cop
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 thought	nmod:poss
32	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		one eagle not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	the King				tree rules
3	walk	gerund	the King not said here			slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit in a quote	must	this time		the throne	I nsubj	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location
5	is a	past		KING's last thought	there	KING nmod:poss	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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🌲 Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 88

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 88