Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 17
Prince Yudhisthira, being the eldest, was called first.
What happens: be, call · To what, where: Yudhisthira · 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: 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Yudhisthira | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Yudhisthira | Yudhisthira | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 eldest | punct |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 eldest | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eldest | det |
| 6 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 Yudhisthira | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yudhisthira | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux:pass |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 called | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | eld property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | past · passive | Yudhisthira Prince | first property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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