Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 43
And all went well, till an enemy of the brothers, jealous of their happiness and their power, tempted Yudhisthira, the eldest of the five.
What happens: go, tempt · To what, where: eldest
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 enemy | punct |
| 6 | till | till | ADP | _ | 8 enemy | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 enemy | det |
| 8 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 brothers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brothers | det |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 enemy | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 jealous | punct |
| 13 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 enemy | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 happiness | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 16 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jealous | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 power | cc |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 power | nmod:poss |
| 19 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 happiness | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tempted | punct |
| 21 | tempted | tempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 22 | Yudhisthira | Yudhisthira | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 eldest | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 eldest | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 eldest | det |
| 25 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 tempted | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 five | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 five | det |
| 28 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 eldest | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | till a enemy of the brothers | well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tempt | past | the eldest Yudhisthira of the five | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eld=Recipient |
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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