Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 89
But “Stop!” said likewise this eagle also, “unless you can tell me that your heart is as pure as the heart of a child.”
Who acts: eagle, you, heart · What happens: stop, say, tell, be · To what, where: eagle · 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 (eagle, you, heart), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Stop | punct |
| 3 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Stop | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Stop | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 eagle | det |
| 9 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 13 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 16 tell | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | aux |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | iobj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 pure | mark |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pure | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 pure | cop |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 pure | advmod |
| 23 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tell | parataxis |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 heart | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 heart | det |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pure | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 child | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 child | det |
| 29 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 heart | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | this eagle | likewise property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | you | this eagle = eagle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | your heart | as the heart of a child; pure property | 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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