Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 44
He challenged him to a game of chance in which he put down all he possessed, to lose or win.
Who acts: Yudhisthira · What happens: challenge, put down, possess, lose, win · To what, where: King, chance
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 (Yudhisthira), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 challenged | nsubj |
| 2 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 challenged | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 game | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 game | det |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 challenged | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 chance | case |
| 8 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 game | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 put | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | nsubj |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 chance | acl |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 put | compound:prt |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 possessed | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 possessed | nsubj |
| 16 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lose | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 lose | mark |
| 19 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 possessed | xcomp |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 win | cc |
| 21 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 lose | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 challenged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | challenge | past | Yudhisthira | King | to a game of chance | tree rules | |||
| 2 | put down | past | Yudhisthira | chance | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in which=Destination | ||||
| 3 | possess | past | Yudhisthira | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lose | to-infinitive | Yudhisthira not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | win | infinitive | Yudhisthira not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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