Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 110
And Drona journeyed to a far country, and for many years the River of Time flowed between him and the man whom he wanted for friend.
Who acts: Drona, River · What happens: journey, flow, want · To what, where: far country, man
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, River), 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 | _ | 3 journeyed | cc |
| 2 | Drona | Drona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 journeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 6 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 country | amod |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 journeyed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flowed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 flowed | cc |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 years | amod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flowed | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 River | det |
| 14 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 flowed | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Time | case |
| 16 | Time | Time | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 River | nmod |
| 17 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 journeyed | conj |
| 18 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 flowed | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 man | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 him | conj |
| 23 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 wanted | obj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wanted | nsubj |
| 25 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 man | acl:relcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 friend | case |
| 27 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wanted | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | Drona | a far country | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to country=Destination | ||||
| 2 | flow | past | the River of Time | year | between Drona | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between he=Location | |||
| 3 | want | past | Drona | the man | for friend | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whom=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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