Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 159
Let a sheep be killed: and place some meat in the lions’ mouths, that the crow may find its meal.”
Who acts: you, sheep, crow · What happens: let, kill, find · To what, where: sheep, meal
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 (you, sheep, crow), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sheep | det |
| 3 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 killed | aux:pass |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 place | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 place | cc |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obl |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 meat | det |
| 10 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 mouths | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lions | det |
| 13 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 13 lions | case |
| 15 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 meat | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 find | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 find | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 crow | det |
| 19 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | nsubj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 find | aux |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 place | acl:relcl |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 meal | nmod:poss |
| 23 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | a sheep | place some meat in the lions's mouths obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | kill | infinitive · passive | a sheep not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | find | may | the crow | meat's meal | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Topic |
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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