Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 106
“They must be two hundred,” said Drupada, “and of the most costly wood.”
Who acts: sticks, Drupada · What happens: be, say · To what, where: two hundred · 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 (sticks, Drupada), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hundred | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hundred | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hundred | cop |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | compound |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hundred | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 hundred | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Drupada | Drupada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 wood | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wood | cc |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wood | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wood | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 costly | advmod |
| 17 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wood | amod |
| 18 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 wood | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 wood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | must | sticks = stick | two hundred | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Drupada | the costly wood ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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