Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 107
And Drona was sad: for he was a poor man, and two sticks gathered in a wood were all that he could bring to the lighting.
Who acts: Drona, two sticks, poor man · What happens: be, gather, bring · To what, where: poor man, wood, lighting
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, two sticks, poor man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sad | cc |
| 2 | Drona | Drona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sad | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sad | cop |
| 4 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 man | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 man | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bring | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gathered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gathered | cc |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 sticks | nummod |
| 15 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gathered | nsubj |
| 16 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 man | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 wood | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wood | det |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gathered | obl |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 bring | aux |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 bring | advmod |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 bring | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bring | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 bring | aux |
| 25 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sad | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 lighting | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lighting | det |
| 28 | lighting | lighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bring | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Drona | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Drona | for a poor man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | gather | past | two sticks | a poor man not said here | a wood | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 4 | bring | could · past | a poor man | the lighting | Drona nsubj; all property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to lighting=Destination |
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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