Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 28
Prince after prince, he questioned on this wise; and all alike made answer: “I see you, my brothers, the tree, and the bird.”
Who acts: Drona · What happens: question, make, see · To what, where: wise, answer, 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 (Drona), 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 after | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 prince | case |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 questioned | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 prince | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 questioned | nsubj |
| 6 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 wise | case |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 wise | nsubj |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 questioned | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 made | advmod |
| 13 | alike | alike | ADV | _ | 14 made | advmod |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 questioned | advcl |
| 15 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 questioned | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 see | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 brothers | punct |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 see | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tree | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 brothers | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bird | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bird | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bird | det |
| 30 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 questioned | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 bird | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 bird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | question speech: other | past | Drona | wise this | after prince | the bird parataxis | tree rules | ||
| 2 | make | participle | Drona not said here | answer | alike, all property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product | |||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | Drona | you | my brothers and the tree obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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