Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 133
And to the horror of all the Court, the scales were brought; and in the presence of the Queen they prepared to slice off the weight of the bird from the King’s right side.
Who acts: scales · What happens: bring, prepare · To what, where: scales, horror, slice, presence
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 (scales), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brought | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 horror | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horror | det |
| 4 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Court | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 Court | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Court | det |
| 8 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horror | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 horror | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 scales | det |
| 11 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 brought | aux:pass |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 prepared | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 prepared | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 presence | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 presence | det |
| 18 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 prepared | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Queen | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Queen | det |
| 21 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 presence | nmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 prepared | nsubj |
| 23 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 brought | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 slice | mark |
| 25 | slice | slice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 prepared | obj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 weight | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 weight | det |
| 28 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 prepared | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 bird | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bird | det |
| 31 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 weight | nmod |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 side | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 King | det |
| 34 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 side | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 King | case |
| 36 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 side | amod |
| 37 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bird | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | the scales | the horror of all Court | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to horror=Destination | ||||
| 2 | prepare | past | scales = scale | slice | the presence of the Queen | off the weight of the bird from the King's right side | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slice=Patient |
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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