Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 11
So were the great ones left without a rival.
What happens: be, leave · To what, where: great ones
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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 ones | advmod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ones | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ones | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ones | amod |
| 5 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ones | acl |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 rival | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rival | det |
| 9 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ones | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the great ones | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | participle | the great ones not said here | without a rival | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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