Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 49

But he was also afraid; for there was something so free in the spirit of Draupadi, that he knew it would not be well with the man who made her a slave.

Who acts: Yudhisthira, something, enemy, man · What happens: be, know, not be, make · To what, where: slave, shoot · 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 (Yudhisthira, something, enemy, man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 afraid	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 afraid	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 afraid	cop
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 afraid	advmod
5	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 afraid	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 was	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 afraid	ccomp
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 was	nsubj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 free	advmod
12	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 something	amod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 spirit	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 spirit	det
15	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 free	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Draupadi	case
17	Draupadi	Draupadi	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 spirit	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 knew	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 knew	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 knew	nsubj
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 afraid	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 man	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 man	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 man	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 man	cop
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 be	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 man	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 knew	ccomp
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 made	nsubj
31	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 man	acl:relcl
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 made	obj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 slave	det
34	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Yudhisthira				afraid property	tree rules
2	be	past	something			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	past	Yudhisthira					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not is	would	enemy				with the man	tree rules
5	make	past	the man	a slave	shoot			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary slave=Product

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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🌲 Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 49

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 49