Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 23
Myself, your brothers, or the tree?”
To what, where: tree
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 | Myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 tree | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brothers | punct |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Myself | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tree | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 tree | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 tree | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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