Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 108
“And you will bring one of the two,” he had said to Drupada; “for all that matters is that we should bring the same.”
Who acts: Drupada, Drona, we · What happens: bring, say, matter, be · To what, where: one, Drupada · 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, Drona, we), 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 | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bring | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bring | aux |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 bring | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 two | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 two | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | aux |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 bring | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Drupada | case |
| 16 | Drupada | Drupada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 matters | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 that | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 that | det:predet |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 matters | obl |
| 22 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ; | parataxis |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 bring | cop |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 bring | mark |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 bring | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 bring | aux |
| 27 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 matters | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 same | det |
| 29 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bring | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 matters | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 matters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | future | Drupada | one of the two | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | Drona | Drupada | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to drupada=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | matter in a quote | present | for that | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | should · present | we | bring property | tree rules |
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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