Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 147
One day a crow swung in the breeze on the tongue of the bell, and the cry for justice clanged forth, reaching the ear of the King.
What happens: swing, clang, reach · To what, where: day crow, cry, ear
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crow | compound |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 crow | det |
| 4 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | swung | swing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 crow | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 breeze | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 breeze | det |
| 8 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swung | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 tongue | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tongue | det |
| 11 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 breeze | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bell | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bell | det |
| 14 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tongue | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cry | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cry | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cry | det |
| 18 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crow | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 justice | case |
| 20 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cry | nmod |
| 21 | clanged | clang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 cry | acl |
| 22 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 21 clanged | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 reaching | punct |
| 24 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 clanged | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ear | det |
| 26 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reaching | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 King | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 King | det |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 ear | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | participle | a day crow and the cry for justice not said here | in the breeze on the tongue of the bell | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in breeze=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | clang | participle | the cry for justice not said here | forth property | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | gerund | the ear of the King | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
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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