Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 167
The King had given order that anyone who had a petition to make should appear at the great Mosque in Delhi, on a Friday morning, wearing a coloured garment, and his petition would be heard forthwith.
Who acts: King, anyone · What happens: give, have, make, appear, wear, hear · To what, where: order, petition, great Mosque, coloured garment
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 (King, anyone), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 given | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 appear | mark |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 appear | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 petition | det |
| 11 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 petition | acl |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 appear | aux |
| 15 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 given | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Mosque | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Mosque | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Mosque | amod |
| 19 | Mosque | Mosque | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 appear | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Delhi | case |
| 21 | Delhi | Delhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Mosque | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 morning | punct |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 morning | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 morning | det |
| 25 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 morning | compound |
| 26 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appear | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wearing | punct |
| 28 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 appear | advcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 garment | det |
| 30 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 garment | amod |
| 31 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wearing | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 heard | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 heard | cc |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 petition | nmod:poss |
| 35 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 heard | nsubj |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 heard | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 heard | aux:pass |
| 38 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 given | conj |
| 39 | forthwith | forthwith | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 heard | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect | the King | order | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | a petition | who nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petition=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | a petition not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | appear | should | anyone | the great Mosque in Delhi | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at mosque=Location | |||
| 5 | wear | gerund | anyone not said here | a coloured garment | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent garment=Source | ||||
| 6 | hear | would · passive | King's petition | forthwith property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | petition | King | nom petition «communication transitive»: poss=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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