Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 141
For even the eagle saw the beauty of giving: and he flew away hungry to his mountains, and neither was the King really hurt, nor the dove without a home.
Who acts: beauty, miracle, neither, King · What happens: see, give, fly away, be, hurt · To what, where: beauty, King, dove
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 (beauty, miracle, neither, King), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 eagle | case |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 eagle | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 eagle | det |
| 4 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beauty | det |
| 7 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 giving | mark |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 beauty | acl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 flew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 flew | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 flew | nsubj |
| 13 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | parataxis |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 flew | advmod |
| 15 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flew | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 mountains | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mountains | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hungry | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hurt | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hurt | cc |
| 21 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 King | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 King | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 King | det |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 hurt | nsubj |
| 25 | really | really | ADV | _ | 26 hurt | advmod |
| 26 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 flew | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dove | punct |
| 28 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 30 dove | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 dove | det |
| 30 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hurt | obl |
| 31 | without | without | ADP | _ | 33 home | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 home | det |
| 33 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hurt | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the beauty | for the eagle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give | gerund | the beauty not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | fly away | past | miracle | away, hungry property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | neither | the King | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hurt | past | the King | the dove | without a home | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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