Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 14
One day Drona, the Master-Archer, made trial of the skill of the princes his pupils.
Who acts: One day · What happens: make, try · To what, where: trial, skill
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 (One day), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj |
| 3 | Drona | Drona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 day | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Archer | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Archer | det |
| 6 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Archer | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Master | punct |
| 8 | Archer | Archer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Drona | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 skill | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 skill | det |
| 14 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trial | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 princes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princes | det |
| 17 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 skill | nmod |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 pupils | nmod:poss |
| 19 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 princes | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | One day | trial of the skill of the princes and skill's pupils | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trial=Product | ||||
| 2 | try | the skill of the princes and skill's pupils | nom trial «act transitive»: of=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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