Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 114
Since my two sticks, to one of which he is welcome, will not do for the lighting of the fire, he shall give me half his two hundred sticks of the costliest wood.”
Who acts: Drona · What happens: be, not do, give · To what, where: hundred sticks, me
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), 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 4 sticks | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sticks | nmod:poss |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sticks | nummod |
| 4 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 do | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sticks | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 welcome | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 welcome | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 welcome | cop |
| 12 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sticks | punct |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 do | advmod |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 lighting | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lighting | det |
| 19 | lighting | lighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fire | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fire | det |
| 22 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lighting | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 give | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 give | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 give | aux |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 do | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 give | iobj |
| 28 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 32 sticks | det:predet |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 sticks | nmod:poss |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 hundred | compound |
| 31 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 sticks | nummod |
| 32 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 give | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 wood | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 wood | det |
| 35 | costliest | costly | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 wood | amod |
| 36 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sticks | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Drona | which obl; welcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not do | future | since my two sticks to one | for the lighting of the fire | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | shall | Drona | Drona's hundred sticks of the costliest wood | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient stick=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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