Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 105
Now Drupada was not worthy of friendship, for he did not believe that two sticks would do for the lighting of the Fire of Friendship.
Who acts: Drupada, two sticks · What happens: not be, not believe, do · 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 (Drupada, two sticks), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 worthy | advmod |
| 2 | Drupada | Drupada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 worthy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worthy | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 worthy | advmod |
| 5 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 friendship | case |
| 7 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 worthy | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 believe | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 believe | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 believe | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 believe | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 believe | advmod |
| 13 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 worthy | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sticks | nummod |
| 16 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 do | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 believe | ccomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 lighting | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lighting | det |
| 21 | lighting | lighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Fire | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Fire | det |
| 24 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 lighting | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Friendship | case |
| 26 | Friendship | Friendship | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Fire | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 worthy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Drupada | now | of friendship; worthy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not believe | past · do-support | Drupada | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | would | two sticks | for the lighting of the Fire of Friendship | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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