Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 144
He caused two great lions of stone to be placed near his palace gates, where all could see them.
Who acts: Story · What happens: cause, place, see · To what, where: two great lions, palace gates, lions
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 (Story), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 caused | nsubj |
| 2 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 lions | nummod |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lions | amod |
| 5 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 caused | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 stone | case |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lions | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 placed | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 placed | aux:pass |
| 10 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 caused | advcl |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 gates | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 gates | nmod:poss |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gates | compound |
| 14 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 placed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 see | advmod |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 see | advmod |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 gates | acl:relcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 see | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | Story | two great lions of stone | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition lion=Patient | ||||
| 2 | place | to-infinitive · passive | Story not said here | Story's palace gates | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: near gate=Destination | ||||
| 3 | see | could | lions = lion | all property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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