Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 131
“Then I wish the weight of the bird to be taken from your right side, and in the presence of the Queen and your small son,” demanded the eagle.
Who acts: eagle · What happens: wish, take, demand · To what, where: weight, right side, presence · 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 (eagle), 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 | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 wish | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 weight | det |
| 6 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wish | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bird | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weight | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 taken | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 taken | aux:pass |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wish | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 side | nmod:poss |
| 15 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 side | amod |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 demanded | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 demanded | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 presence | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 presence | det |
| 21 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 demanded | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Queen | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Queen | det |
| 24 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 presence | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 son | cc |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 son | nmod:poss |
| 27 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 son | amod |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Queen | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 son | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 son | punct |
| 31 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wish | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 eagle | det |
| 33 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 demanded | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | the eagle = eagle | the weight of the bird | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | the eagle = eagle not said here | your right side | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: from side=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | demand speech: request | past | the eagle | the presence of the Queen and your small son | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=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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