Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 169

And the people remembered the custom of the good King who had denied a hearing to no one; and they said: “The King’s daughter is herself to-day a beggar.”

Who acts: people, custom, daughter · What happens: remember, deny, say, be · To what, where: custom, hearing, one, daughter · 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 (people, custom, daughter), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 remembered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remembered	nsubj
4	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 custom	det
6	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remembered	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 King	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 King	amod
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 custom	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 denied	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 denied	aux
13	denied	deny	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 custom	acl:relcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hearing	det
15	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 denied	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 one	case
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 denied	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remembered	parataxis
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 herself	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 herself	punct
25	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 King	det
26	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 daughter	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 King	case
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 herself	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 herself	cop
30	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 said	ccomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 day	case
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 to	punct
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 herself	nmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 beggar	det
35	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remembered	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	the people	the custom of the good King				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent custom=Theme
2	deny	past · perfect	the custom of the good King	a hearing	no one			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent hearing=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	people				a beggar nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	the King's daughter	daughter		day		tree rules

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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🌲 Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 169

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 169