Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 139
My left eye but weeps because to the right side of the King alone is it given to protect the weak and defenceless.”
Who acts: left eye · What happens: weep, give, protect · To what, where: side, right side, weak
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 (left eye), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eye | nmod:poss |
| 2 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eye | amod |
| 3 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weeps | nsubj |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 weeps | cc |
| 5 | weeps | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 given | mark |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 side | det |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 side | amod |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 King | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 side | nmod |
| 14 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 10 side | advmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | aux:pass |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 given | nsubj |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 weeps | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 protect | mark |
| 19 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 given | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 weak | det |
| 21 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 protect | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 defenceless | cc |
| 23 | defenceless | defenceless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 weak | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 weeps | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 weeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | present | My left eye | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | present · passive | side | the right side of the King | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to side=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | protect | to-infinitive | the weak | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weak=Beneficiary |
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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