Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 16
“Take your bows and arrows,” said he, “and be ready to shoot, when I tell you, at the blue bird in yonder tree.”
Who acts: pupil · What happens: take, say, be, shoot, tell · To what, where: bows, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pupil), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bows | nmod:poss |
| 4 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Take | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 arrows | cc |
| 6 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bows | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ready | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ready | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ready | cc |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ready | cop |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 shoot | mark |
| 17 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ready | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tell | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 tell | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 tell | nsubj |
| 21 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 tell | iobj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bird | punct |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 bird | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bird | det |
| 26 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bird | amod |
| 27 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tell | ccomp |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 tree | case |
| 29 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 30 tree | advmod |
| 30 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bird | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 tell | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | infinitive | your bows and arrows | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | pupil | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | pupil not said here | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shoot in a quote | to-infinitive | pupil not said here | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | pupil | you | the blue bird in tree ccomp | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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