Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 136
Then from the left eye of the King fell a single tear.
What happens: fall · To what, where: single tear, left eye
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 fell | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 eye | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eye | det |
| 4 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eye | amod |
| 5 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 eye | nmod |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tear | det |
| 11 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tear | amod |
| 12 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a single tear | the left eye of the King | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient tear=Extent from eye=Initial_State |
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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