Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 121
One day as the King sat in his great Hall of Justice, there came in at the window a poor frightened grey dove, nearly spent with flight, and flew straight against the heart of the King.
Who acts: poor frightened grey dove · What happens: sit, come in, spend, fly · To what, where: great Hall, window, poor frightened grey dove, heart
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 (poor frightened grey dove), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 King | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Hall | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Hall | nmod:poss |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Hall | amod |
| 10 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Justice | case |
| 12 | Justice | Justice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Hall | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 came | expl |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sat | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 window | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 window | det |
| 19 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 dove | det |
| 21 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dove | amod |
| 22 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dove | amod |
| 23 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dove | amod |
| 24 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 spent | punct |
| 26 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 27 spent | advmod |
| 27 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 dove | acl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 flight | case |
| 29 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 spent | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 flew | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 flew | cc |
| 32 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sat | conj |
| 33 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 32 flew | advmod |
| 34 | against | against | ADP | _ | 36 heart | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 heart | det |
| 36 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 flew | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 King | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 King | det |
| 39 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 heart | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | King's great Hall of Justice | day | as the King | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location | |||
| 2 | come in | past | a poor frightened grey dove | the window; there | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location | ||||
| 3 | spend | participle | a poor frightened grey dove not said here | with flight; nearly property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fly | past | the heart of the King | straight property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against heart=Location |
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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