Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 40
In a week all the King’s servants were dead: and the brothers marched into the palace and took all that they wanted of gold and emeralds, of horses and chariots.
Who acts: servants, brothers · What happens: be, march, take, want · To what, where: palace
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 (servants, brothers), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 week | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 week | det |
| 3 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dead | obl |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 servants | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 servants | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 King | case |
| 8 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dead | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dead | cop |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 marched | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brothers | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 brothers | det |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 marched | nsubj |
| 15 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dead | parataxis |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 palace | det |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 marched | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 marched | conj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 wanted | det:predet |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 wanted | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wanted | nsubj |
| 24 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | ccomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 gold | case |
| 26 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wanted | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 emeralds | cc |
| 28 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 gold | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 horses | punct |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 horses | case |
| 31 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 wanted | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 chariots | cc |
| 33 | chariots | chariot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 horses | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King's servants | week | dead property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | march | past | the brothers | into the palace result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into palace=Result | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the brothers not said here | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | want | past | brothers = brother | of gold and emeralds; of horses and chariots | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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