Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 117
Long and long ago there lived a King called Sibi Rana.
What happens: live, call · To what, where: King · 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: 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 there | cc |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ago | advmod |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 there | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Long | conj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 King | acl |
| 10 | Sibi | Sibi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 11 | Rana | Rana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sibi | flat |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a King | there | long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a King not said here | Sibi xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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