Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 126
“Nay,” said the King, “on the contrary, food equal in weight to the bird shall be given to you.”
Who acts: King · What happens: say, give · To what, where: contrary, you · 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: who acts (King), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 given | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 given | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 contrary | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 contrary | det |
| 12 | contrary | contrary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 given | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 food | punct |
| 14 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 contrary | conj |
| 15 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 contrary | amod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 weight | case |
| 17 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 equal | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 bird | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bird | det |
| 20 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 weight | nmod |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 given | aux:pass |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 given | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | shall · passive | the contrary and food | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to you=Recipient |
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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