Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 1
Then said Drona, “If you are my pupil, give me the fee due to a Master.”
Who acts: Drona, you · What happens: say, be, give · To what, where: pupil, fee, Drona · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drona, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Drona | Drona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 6 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 pupil | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 pupil | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pupil | cop |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pupil | nmod:poss |
| 10 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pupil | punct |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fee | det |
| 15 | fee | fee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 19 Master | case |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 due | fixed |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 Master | det |
| 19 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Drona | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | my pupil | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | the fee | Drona | due a Master | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient fee=Theme |
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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