Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 145
A bell hung from the bar between the lions.
What happens: hang · To what, where: bell, bar
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bell | det |
| 2 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 bell | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 bar | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bar | det |
| 6 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 lions | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lions | det |
| 9 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bar | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | participle | a bell not said here | the bar between the lions | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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