Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 132
“Beseech the Queen to come hither,” said the King, “with my son.”
What happens: beseech, come, say · To what, where: Queen · 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beseech | punct |
| 2 | Beseech | beseech | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Beseech | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Beseech | advcl |
| 7 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beseech | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beseech | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 son | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 son | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 son | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 King | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beseech in a quote | infinitive | the Queen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | to-infinitive | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the King with my son ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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