Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 4
I have nothing I would not give with all my heart.”
Who acts: I · What happens: have, not give · To what, where: nothing
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 have | obj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 give | advmod |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 heart | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 heart | det:predet |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not give | would | I | with my heart | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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