Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 102
Make a fire of two sticks, or twenty, or two hundred--any number will do: and if you walk round the fire sunwise, with that one whom you would have for a friend, the gods themselves will not take back the gift.
Who acts: you, number, Gods · What happens: make, do, walk, have, not take back, fire · To what, where: fire, one, gift, two sticks
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 (you, number, Gods), 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 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fire | det |
| 3 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sticks | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 sticks | nummod |
| 6 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fire | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 twenty | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 twenty | cc |
| 9 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Make | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hundred | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 hundred | cc |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 hundred | compound |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 twenty | conj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 number | det |
| 16 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hundred | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 walk | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 walk | cc |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 walk | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 walk | nsubj |
| 23 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Make | parataxis |
| 24 | round | round | ADP | _ | 26 fire | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fire | det |
| 26 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 walk | obl |
| 27 | sunwise | sunwise | ADV | _ | 23 walk | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 one | punct |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 one | case |
| 30 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 one | det |
| 31 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 walk | parataxis |
| 32 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 have | obj |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 have | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 have | aux |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 one | acl:relcl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 friend | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 friend | det |
| 38 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 have | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 gods | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 gods | det |
| 41 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 one | conj |
| 42 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 45 take | nsubj |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 take | aux |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 take | advmod |
| 45 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 gods | acl:relcl |
| 46 | back | back | ADV | _ | 45 take | advmod |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 gift | det |
| 48 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 take | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | a fire of two sticks | twenty conj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | |||
| 2 | do | future | any number | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | walk a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the fire | that one and the gods parataxis; sunwise property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round fire=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | have | would | you | that one and the gods | for a friend | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient | |||
| 5 | not take back | future | Gods = god | the gift | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fire | two sticks | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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