Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 65
And when Gandhari, his bride, saw the hurt of his loneliness--“Let me in to him behind his bars of darkness,” she said to the gods.
Who acts: Gandhari, bride, loneliness · What happens: see, let in, say, hurt · To what, where: hurt, Draupadi, Gandhari, bars, gods · 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 (Gandhari, bride, loneliness), 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 | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 3 | Gandhari | Gandhari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bride | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bride | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Gandhari | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Gandhari | punct |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 said | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hurt | det |
| 10 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 loneliness | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 loneliness | nmod:poss |
| 13 | loneliness | loneliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hurt | nmod |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 Let | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Let | punct |
| 16 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 Let | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Let | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 Let | obl |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 23 bars | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 bars | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Let | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 darkness | case |
| 25 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bars | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 gods | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 gods | det |
| 32 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 said | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Gandhari | the hurt of Gandhari's loneliness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hurt=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | let in in a quote | infinitive | Gandhari not said here | Draupadi | Gandhari | Gandhari's bars of darkness | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme to he=Recipient | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | bride | the gods | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to god=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | hurt | Gandhari's loneliness | nom hurt «state intransitive»: of=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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