Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 7

And Ekalavya, allowing no look of sadness to spoil his gift, cut off his thumb, without a word, and laid it at the feet of the Master-Archer.

Who acts: Ekalavya · What happens: allow, spoil, cut off, lay, gift · To what, where: look, gift, thumb, feet

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 (Ekalavya), 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	_	4 allowing	cc
2	Ekalavya	Ekalavya	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 allowing	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 allowing	punct
4	allowing	allow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 look	det
6	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 allowing	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 sadness	case
8	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 spoil	mark
10	spoil	spoil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowing	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 gift	nmod:poss
12	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spoil	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cut	punct
14	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 spoil	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 cut	compound:prt
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 thumb	nmod:poss
17	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cut	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 word	punct
19	without	without	ADP	_	21 word	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 word	det
21	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cut	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 laid	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 laid	cc
24	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 allowing	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 laid	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 feet	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 feet	det
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 laid	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 Archer	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Archer	det
31	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Archer	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Master	punct
33	Archer	Archer	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 feet	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 allowing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	allow	gerund	Ekalavya	no look of sadness			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Beneficiary
2	spoil	to-infinitive	Ekalavya not said here	Ekalavya's gift			tree rules
3	cut off	infinitive	Ekalavya not said here	Ekalavya's thumb		without a word	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector thumb=Eventuality
4	lay	past	Ekalavya not said here	thumb	the feet of the Master Archer		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at foot=Destination
5	gift		Ekalavya				nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 7

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 7