Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 30
“Tell me, Arjun, with bow bent, what do you see?”
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, bend, see · To what, where: Arjun, Drona, bow · 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 (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 2 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Tell | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Arjun | punct |
| 5 | Arjun | Arjun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tell | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bow | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 bow | case |
| 8 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tell | obl |
| 9 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bow | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 see | obj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 bow | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Arjun | Drona | with bow | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||
| 2 | bend in a quote | participle | bow not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present · do-support | you | bow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=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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