Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 61
They need owe nothing to a boon; nor, with the Pandavas free, need I either, any longer.”
Who acts: Draupadi · What happens: need, owe · To what, where: nothing, boon, I
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 (Draupadi), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 need | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 need | xcomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 owe | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 boon | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boon | det |
| 7 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 need | punct |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 need | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nor | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 free | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 free | det |
| 13 | Pandavas | Pandavas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 free | compound |
| 14 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 need | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 free | punct |
| 16 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 need | parataxis |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 need | obj |
| 18 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 need | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 longer | punct |
| 20 | any | any | ADV | _ | 21 longer | advmod |
| 21 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 need | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 need | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Draupadi | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | owe not said to happen | present | Draupadi not said here | nothing | to a boon goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme to boon=Goal | |||
| 3 | need | present | I | with the Pandavas free; either property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme |
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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